From the 18th century until 1941 this place was the cemetery of the Daugai Jewish community. Until 1928 The level of Daugai Lake was about 2 m higher than it is now and the cemetery was surrounded by water, so coffins had to be carried over a stone ford. Photographs from the interwar period show that the entrance to the cemetery was gated. During the Soviet era, a wellness and recreation area was established on the peninsula, and stairs were made of stone tombstones on the slope. When the Revival began, the stairs were dismantled, and the tombstones were arranged in rows (there are eight such rows in the cemetery). There are 81 of them in the cemetery. a black granite monument was erected in Hebrew and Lithuanian: "HERE WAS A JEWISH CEMETERY UNTIL 1941 / THE HOLY DEAD MEMORY OF TEBUNIE / 5750-1990".
Daugai, Alytus r.
GPS: 54.364000, 24.357000 (WGS)
Photo: © Photo archive of the Alytus Department of the Department of Cultural Heritage
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