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Memel/Klaipėda and the Memelland/Memelgebiet/Klaipėdos Kraštas
            Klaipėda/Memel -- Yizkor Book Project -- Encyc. of Jewish Communities in Lithuania
            Die Jüdische Gemeinschaft in Klaipėda/Memel
            Memel (Klaipėda) photos
            Dovid Katz, "Demon's Dance with Swastika in Today's Lithuania," The Algemeiner Journal, May 28, 2010 (in Yiddish)
Kaunas/Kovno and the Surrounding Areas
            Kaunas/Kovno -- Yizkor Book Project
            Kovno -- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum/Holocaust Encyclopedia
            Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto (Exhibition) -- U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
            The Kovno Ghetto Partisans & Chaim Yelin -- Fold3
            Kovno stories and Links; and Kovno site -- Eilat Gordin Levitan
            Historic images of Kaunas/Kovno/Kowno -- Boris Feldblyum Collection
            Kaunas, Lithuania -- Jose Gutstein
            Kaunas: the 9th Fort Museum
            History of Jonava/Yaneve -- Yizkor Book Project
            Ofer Aderet, "Trove of Everyday Items Reveals Lithuania's Dark Holocaust Secret," Haaretz, August 31, 2012, printabled version or webpage [7th Fort Kaunas]
            Kauno apskrities archyvas, Tautinės mažumos laikinojoje sostinėje (in Lithuanian)
            Žydai Lietuvoje (Jews in Lithuania), Kauno žydų istorija ir paveldas (The history and heritage of Kaunas Jews) (in Lithuanian)
            Ruben Rubinstein, "The Kovno Jewish Community," via  Herzog College (in Hebrew)
           "Kovno," Zachor website (in Hebrew) 
Rokiškis/Rakishok and the Nearby Area
           Rokiškis/Rakishok -- Yizkor Book Project
           M. Bakalczuk-Felin (ed.), Memorial Book of Rokiskis, Johannesburg, 1952 (translated from Yiddish)
           Memorial Book of Rokiskis, the photograph captions
           Pandėlys/Ponedeli -- Yizkor Book Project
           Pandėlys/Ponedeli -- Yoffe Blog
           Rakishok (Rokiškis) -- from: Nancy & Stuart Schoenburg, Lithuanian Jewish Communities, Jason Aronson, Northvale, N.J., 1996
Vilnius
           Old Photos; Jewish Vilna
           Dictionary of Vilnius Streets (in Russian)
           Paneriai/Ponar/Ponary (near Vilnius) --Yad Vashem Holocaust Documentation
           Mano gimtasis miestas Vilnius/My hometown - Vilnius (in Lithuanian) -- Avrom Karpinovič
           Destiny of the Great Synagogue of Vilna (in Russian, Большая виленская синагога) -- szhaman, Live Journal
           Aron Einat, "Internal Life in the Vilna Ghetto," Ph.D. thesis, Hebrew University, 2006
          "Vilna," Zachor website
          "Vilna," Zachor website (in Hebrew)
           Laimonas Briedis, Vilnius: City of Strangers, CEU Press; Baltos Lankos, 2009 (read Special Reprint) 
Jews of Lithuania          
           Žydai Lietuvoje/Jews in Lithuania (in Lithuanian)
           Jews in Lithuania (in Lithuanian) Video: -- LRT
          The Holocaust in Lithuania (Reading List for Teachers of Holocaust Studies, Materials for Educators and Students), Aug 9, 2010
           Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania
           Percentage Jewish population killed in selected Nazi occupied countries
           Lithuania/index -- JewishGen KehilaLinks (formerly "ShtetLinks")
           Litvak Heritage -- LitvakSIG
           All Lithuania Database -- LitvakSIG
           Dov Levin, The Litvaks: A Short History of the Jews in Lithuania, 2000 (google books)
           Dov Levin, "Jewish Resistance in the Baltic States 1941-1945"
           Dov Levin, "With a Rifle in My Hand and Eretz Yisrael in My Heart"
           Dov Levin, Jews in Lithuania during the Holocaust (articles collection, in Hebrew) -- Herzog College, Virtual Library
           Association of Lithuanian Jews in Israel (in Hebrew)
           Rose Lerer Cohen and Saul Issroff (eds), The Holocaust in Lithuania 1941-1945: A Book of Remembrance, Gefen Publ House, 2002
           Museum of Family History: Permanent Exhibition: The Synagogues of Europe: Past and Present, Lithuania (images and history) (The site also includes a list of synagogues in Poland, Germany, Russia, Latvia and other countries)
          United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, Lithuania and the Jews - The Holocaust Chapter, Symposium, Washington D.C., 2004         
           О. Ф. Жемайтис, Первый бой 16-й Литовской стрелковой дивизии в Великой Отечественной войне (in Russian)         
          "Rašytojas G. Kanovičius: 'Tik mylėti galima be atsako, neapkęsti be atsako – neįmanoma'," Literatūra ir menas, Dec 3, 2012 (in Lithuanian)
        "Lithuania," The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
        "Telšiai," Zachor website (in Hebrew)
        "Šiauliai," Zachor website (in Hebrew)
        "Panevėžys," Zachor website (in Hebrew)
        "Pilviškiai," Zachor website (in Hebrew)
         Masha Greenbaum, The Jews of Lithuania: A History of a Remarkable Community, 1316-1945, Jerusalem: Gefen Publ House, 1995
         Dovid Katz, Map of the Jewish Communities of Lithuania: Links to Their Holocaust Fate
         Dovid Katz, Seven Kingdoms of the Litvaks, Vilnius, 2009
         Dovid Katz, "Who is a Litvak?"
         Dovid Katz, Lithuanian Jewish Culture, Vilnius University, Baltos Lankos, 2004
         Giedrė Beconytė and Dovid Katz, "The Atlas of Northeastern Yiddish: On the Status of Maps in Linguistic Research," Geodesy and Cartography, Vol 37 (2011), pp. 119-124
         Eliach Yaffa, There Once Was a World: A 900-year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1999 --- Book Review in Lituanus Vol 47 (2001)
         Rolandas Gustaitis, Jews of the Kaišiadorys region of Lithuania, Avotaynu, 2010
        Josef Rosin, Preserving Our Litvak Heritage, Vol. 1, JewishGen, Jan 2005;  Preserving Our Litvak Heritage, Vol. 2, JewishGen, Feb 2007; Protecting Our Litvak Heritage, Friends of the Yurburg Jewish Cemetery, 2009 (see review)
       Lithuania: Jewish Family History Research Guide, Courtesy of the Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute, Revised January 2012
       Marija Barkauskaitė et al., Intercultural Education in Lithuania: Context, Tendencies of Change, Models