דער קערפער פֿון השם"In the forests surrounding the small #Lithuanian town of #Seduva, hundreds of #Jewish men, women, and children were shot to death in the summer of 1941. Their names, once erased from memory, now line the walls of a new #museum built to commemorate a world that vanished with them. Yet as #Lithuania struggles to confront its past, #antisemitism is once again finding legitimacy in the country’s present.
Seduva, a town of just 2,400 people located about a two-hours’ drive north of #Vilnius on the road to neighboring #Latvia, was for decades little more than a forgotten dot on the map. Until recently, its main attractions were an old windmill and a nearby restaurant hosting occasional events. Few #Lithuanians, let alone foreign visitors, had any reason to stop there.
That changed last September with the opening of the Lost #Shtetl Museum..."
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