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What happened to the Jews in Lithuania

108 events, 1348 AD to 1993 AD

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Cities, towns and sites in Lithuania

Timeline

14th century

  1. c. 1348–1350 AD Well-poisoning defamation, killings and expulsions of about 300 communities · Spain and elsewhere

15th century

  1. 1495 AD Expulsion of Jews from Lithuania · Lithuania
  2. 1495–1501 AD Confiscation of expelled Jews' property in Lithuania · Lithuania

16th century

  1. 1503 AD Expulsion of Jews from Lithuania lifted formally · Lithuania
  2. 1503 AD Expulsion of Jews from Lithuania lifted in practice · Lithuania
  3. 1529 AD Tax of 1,000 kop groschen imposed on Lithuanian Jewish communities · Lithuania
  4. c. 1539–1540 AD Investigation and harassment of Lithuanian Jews over rumored converts · Lithuania
  5. 1551 AD Lithuanian nobles urge special poll tax on Jews at Diet of Wilna · Vilnius (Wilna), Lithuania
  6. 1555 AD Illegal treatment of Jews by Wilna magistrate · Vilnius (Wilna), Lithuania
  7. 1564 AD Ritual murder trial and execution of Bernat Abramovich · Lithuania
  8. 1566 AD False accusation against two servants of Borodavka · Lithuania
  9. 1567 AD Special "loan" levied on Lithuanian Jews · Lithuania
  10. 1589 AD Kovno merchants bar Troki Jews from trading and seize their wares · Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania
  11. 1592 AD Citizens of Wilna destroy the Jewish bet ha-midrash · Vilnius (Wilna), Lithuania

17th century

  1. 1601 AD Jews of Grodno and other towns lose Kovno shipping privilege · Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania
  2. 1635 AD Mob destroys Jewish prayer-house in Wilna · Vilnius (Wilna), Lithuania
  3. 1635 AD Riot in Vilna · Vilnius (Vilna), Lithuania
  4. 1653 AD King John Casimir restricts Jewish occupations · Vilnius (Wilna), Lithuania
  5. 1654 AD Cossack and Russian conquest of Wilna: Jews killed · Vilnius (Wilna), Lithuania
  6. 1655 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Wilna by the Russians · Vilnius (Wilna), Lithuania
  7. 1663 AD Wilna glaziers' union bars Jews · Vilnius (Wilna), Lithuania
  8. 1664 AD Fishermen's union excludes Jews from fishing trade · Vilnius (Wilna), Lithuania
  9. 1664 AD Jews barred from silversmith and goldsmith trades · Vilnius (Wilna), Lithuania
  10. 1666 AD Jews excluded from the grain business in Wilna · Vilnius (Wilna), Lithuania
  11. 1667 AD Jews excluded from tanning in Wilna · Vilnius (Wilna), Lithuania
  12. 1669 AD Jews excluded from bristle manufacturing in Wilna · Vilnius (Wilna), Lithuania
  13. 1681 AD Attack in Vilna · Vilnius (Vilna), Lithuania
  14. 1682 AD Renewed ban on Jewish settlement in Kaunas · Kaunas, Lithuania

18th century

  1. c. 1730–1762 AD Haidamack attacks on the Jews of Lithuania and Ukraine · Lithuania and elsewhere
  2. 1742 AD Wilna Jews forced to surrender grain-trade privileges · Vilnius (Wilna), Lithuania
  3. 1753 AD Expulsion of Jews from municipal land in Kaunas · Kaunas, Lithuania
  4. 1753 AD Kovno Jews limited to residence in the Starochinska district · Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania
  5. 1761 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Kovno · Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania
  6. 1761 AD Riot in Kaunas · Kaunas, Lithuania
  7. 1783 AD King Stanislaus Augustus grants Kovno Jews the right of residence · Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania

19th century

  1. 1827 AD Blood libel in Telz · Telšiai (Telz), Lithuania
  2. 1845–1858 AD Restrictions on Jewish settlement in Kaunas · Kaunas, Lithuania
  3. 1900 AD Blondes Case in Vilna · Vilnius (Vilna), Lithuania

20th century

  1. c. 1914–1918 AD Russian army pogroms against Jews in Lithuania during World War I · Lithuania
  2. c. 1914–1918 AD Russian evacuation of Jews in World War I · Poland and elsewhere
  3. 1915 AD Czarist expulsion of Jews from Kovno province · Kovno Governorate, Lithuania
  4. 1915 AD Deportation of Panevezys Jews into interior Russia · Panevėžys, Lithuania
  5. 1915 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Biržai by Russian military · Biržai, Lithuania
  6. c. 1915 AD Jews expelled from Lithuania during World War I · Lithuania
  7. 1919–1920 AD Vilna pogrom · Vilnius (Vilna), Lithuania
  8. 1922 AD Jewish parliamentary seats cut by false reading of election law · Lithuania
  9. 1936 AD Jewish students excluded from Kaunas University medical faculty · Kaunas, Lithuania
  10. 1936 AD Nazi blood-libel trial at Memel · Klaipėda (Memel), Lithuania
  11. 1938 AD Pogrom in Vilna, Poland · Vilnius (Vilna), Lithuania
  12. c. 1939 AD Murder of the Jews of Skuodas by Nazi occupation forces · Skuodas, Lithuania
  13. 1941 AD 33,500 of Vilna's 57,000 Jews already murdered · Vilnius (Vilna), Lithuania
  14. 1941 AD August 1941 roundup and killing of Jewish men · Kaunas, Lithuania
  15. 1941 AD Destruction of Jewish communities in the Lithuanian provinces · Lithuania
  16. 1941 AD Drunken Germans kill 4,000 Jews at Ponary · Paneriai, Lithuania
  17. 1941 AD During the month of July 1941, Einsatzkommando 9 murders approximately 5,000… · Vilnius (Vilna), Lithuania
  18. 1941 AD Einsatzkommando 3 Killings · Lithuania
  19. 1941 AD Establishment of Panevezys ghetto · Panevėžys, Lithuania
  20. 1941 AD Establishment of the Biržai ghetto · Biržai, Lithuania
  21. 1941 AD Establishment of the Kaunas ghetto in Slobodka · Kaunas, Lithuania
  22. 1941 AD Execution of Jewish men and murder of remaining Jews in Biržai · Biržai, Lithuania
  23. 1941 AD Further Aktionen in the Kaunas ghetto, August-December 1941 · Kaunas, Lithuania
  24. 1941 AD German SS and police units and Lithuanian police auxiliaries murder 9,200… · Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania
  25. 1941 AD Hundreds of Jews killed at Plunge · Plungė, Lithuania
  26. 1941 AD Kaunas massacre of October 29, 1941 · Ninth Fort, Kaunas, Lithuania
  27. 1941 AD Kaunas pogrom · Lithuania
  28. 1941 AD Killings of Jews by Lithuanian Fascists before German arrival · Kaunas, Lithuania
  29. 1941 AD Kovno Ghetto · Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania
  30. 1941 AD Kovno Jews murdered at Ninth Fort; hospital set ablaze · Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania
  31. 1941 AD Large-scale executions across Lithuania · Lithuania
  32. 1941 AD Lithuanian militiamen murder 2,000 Jews at the Seventh Fort · Kaunas, Lithuania
  33. 1941 AD Lithuanian nationalists murder and maltreat Jews in Biržai · Biržai, Lithuania
  34. 1941 AD Lithuanian police beat hundreds of Kovno Jews to death · Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania
  35. 1941 AD Lohse's provisional regulations on Jews in Ostland · Lithuania
  36. 1941 AD Mass executions by Einsatzkommando 3 in Lithuanian towns · Raseiniai, Lithuania
  37. 1941 AD Mass shootings begin at Ponary near Vilna · Paneriai, Lithuania
  38. 1941 AD Massacre of 15,000 Jews in Kovno · Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania
  39. 1941 AD Murder of Panevezys Jews · Panevėžys, Lithuania
  40. 1941 AD Murder of the Jews of Kelmė · Kelmė, Lithuania
  41. 1941 AD Nazi raid on Vilna ghetto leaves 3,000 dead at Ponary · Vilnius (Vilna), Lithuania
  42. 1941 AD Ninth Fort Aktion of October 29, 1941 · Kaunas, Lithuania
  43. 1941 AD Ninth Fort massacres of November 1941 · Ninth Fort, Kaunas, Lithuania
  44. 1941 AD Over 3,200 Ejszyszki Jews shot at pits · Eišiškės, Lithuania
  45. 1941 AD Podborodz Jews killed on Yom Kippur · Pabradė, Lithuania
  46. 1941 AD Pogrom in Kovno kills about 3,800 Jews · Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania
  47. 1941 AD Slobodka pogrom · Kaunas (Slobodka), Lithuania
  48. 1941 AD Soviet deportation of Jews and others to Siberia · Lithuania
  49. 1941 AD Swieciany Jews massacred in the Polygon Woods · Švenčionys (Święciany), Lithuania
  50. 1941 AD Thirty-two Jews killed in Mariampole · Marijampolė, Lithuania
  51. 1941 AD Thousands of Kovno Jews executed at a synagogue · Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania
  52. 1941 AD Utena Massacre · Utena, Lithuania
  53. 1941 AD Vilna Jewish leader Dr. Jacob Wigodsky arrested · Vilnius (Vilna), Lithuania
  54. 1941 AD Šiauliai Ghetto · Šiauliai, Lithuania
  55. 1941–1942 AD Marcinkonys Ghetto · Marcinkonys, Lithuania
  56. 1941–1943 AD Vilna Ghetto · Vilnius, Lithuania
  57. 1941–1944 AD Ponary massacre · Paneriai, Lithuania
  58. 1942 AD Resettlement actions transferring Kaunas Jews to Riga · Kaunas, Lithuania
  59. 1942 AD Vitka Kempner sets out to mine a German train · Vilnius (Vilna), Lithuania
  60. 1943 AD Deportation to Estonia and conversion of ghetto into concentration camp · Kaunas, Lithuania
  61. 1943 AD German authorities deport around 2,700 Jews from Kovno (Kaunas) to the labor… · Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania
  62. 1943 AD SS authorities order the final deportation of Jews from the Vilna (Vilne)… · Vilnius (Vilna), Lithuania
  63. 1944 AD Deportation of Lithuanian Jews to German camps · Lithuania
  64. 1944 AD Killing in Ponary Killing Site · Paneriai, Lithuania
  65. 1944 AD Kovno ghetto evacuated · Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania
  66. 1944 AD March 1944 Aktion against children, elderly and sick · Kaunas, Lithuania
  67. 1963 AD Jewish cemetery plowed up in Kaunas · Kaunas, Lithuania
  68. 1968 AD Destruction of Panevezys Jewish cemetery · Panevėžys, Lithuania
  69. 1993 AD Desecration of Jewish cemeteries in Vilnius and Kaunas · Vilnius, Lithuania
  70. 1993 AD Vandalism of Holocaust memorial at Paneriai (Ponary) · Paneriai, Lithuania

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