The Tower of Faces at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. displays photos taken between 1890 & 1941 in Eišiškės, a town in what is now Lithuania. They show a vibrant Jewish community that existed for hundreds of years. In September 1941, an SS squad massacred the entire Jewish population - nearly 4,000 people. In just a week, more than 250 years of Jewish life and culture in Eišiškės came to an end.

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