by Josef Rosin z”l
A History of 31 Jewish Communities in Lithuania
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Josef Rosin's Preserving Our Litvak Heritage – Volume I is a monumental work documenting the history of 31 Jewish communities in Lithuania from their inception to the indescribable annihilations of nearly all of Lithuanian Jewry in 1941 at the hands of the Nazis and their Lithuania helpers. The entry for each community has been enhanced with personal memoirs and contributions from widely dispersed survivors who opened family albums and shared treasured photographs of family and friends. Included are the important town personalities, the glorious Hebrew educational system of the Tarbuth elementary schools and the Yavneh high schools, in short the entire record of cultural richness. Available at:
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In 1950 he earned a Civil Engineering degree and eight years later an M.S. in Agricultural Engineering from the Technion Institute of Technology in Haifa. In 1987 he retired after 37 years in the firm “Water Planning for Israel” (TAHAL) where for more than twenty years he was head of the Drainage and Development Department.
After his retirement he devoted himself to immortalizing the Jewish communities of Lithuania totally destroyed by the Nazis and their local helpers. First, he wrote in Hebrew about his hometown The Remembrance Book of Kibart, and later translated it into English. It appears in this book.
For over six years he worked as assistant editor contributing nearly 80% of the entries in the Pinkas HaKehiloth-Lita (Encyclopedia of the Jewish Communities in Lithuania) edited by professor Dov Levin from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and published in 1996 by Yad Vashem.
Josef Rosin's current book contains the expanded history of 31 Jewish communities in Lithuania:
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| Lithuanian Name | Yiddish Name |
| Alytus | Alite |
| Biržai | Birzh |
| Jurbarkas | Yurburg |
| Kaišiadorys | Koshedar |
| Kapčiamiestis | Kopcheve |
| Klaipėda | Memel |
| Naishtot | |
| Kybartai | Kibart |
| Lazdijai | Lazdey |
| Lygumai | Ligum |
| Marijampolė | Mariampol |
| Merkinė | Meretch |
| Panevėžys | Ponevezh |
| Pilviškiai | Pilvishok |
| Prienai | Pren |
| Šakiai | Shaki |
| Salantai | Salant |
| Seirijai | Serey |
| Šėta | Shat |
| Stakliškės | Stoklishok |
| Sudargas | Sudarg |
| Tauragė | Tavrig |
| Tauragnai | Taragin |
| Telšiai | Telzh |
| Utena | Utyan |
| Varėna | Aran |
| Veisiejai | Vishey |
| Vilkaviškis | Vilkovishk |
| Virbalis | Virbaln |
| Žeimelis | Zheimel |
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Josef Rosin, born in Kibart Lithuania is a 1939 graduate of the Hebrew High School in Mariampol. During the Nazi rule in Lithuania he was imprisoned for two and a half years in the Kovno ghetto until he escaped in February 1944 to fight as a partisan against the German and Lithuanian Nazis in the woods of eastern Lithuania and Belarus. After the liberation by the Red Army he returned to Kovno where he was employed until March 1945; at that time he joined a group of Jewish young adults whose goal it was to go to Eretz-Yisrael. In August 1944 he left Lithuania and in October of the same year he arrived in his new homeland as an illegal immigrant together with his bride, Peninah.