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The remarkable story of the Lost Shtetl Museum

JL;DR SUMMARY The Lost Shtetl Museum, inaugurated in 2025 in eduva, Lithuania, stands as a poignant tribute to the once-thriving Jewish community of this former shtetl, which was entirely wiped out during the Holocaust. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HolocaustJewish HeritageJewish CemeteryShtetl LifeLithuanian JewsExhibitionsLost Shtetl MuseumEduvaSergey KanovichMuseum Architecture

Places mentioned

Ĺ eduva, Alytus County, Lithuania
"eduva, two hours by car from Vilnius, was once a shtetl."
Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania
"eduva, two hours by car from Vilnius, was once a shtetl."
Jonava, Kaunas County, Lithuania
"His own father, Grigory Kanovich, a celebrated Lithuanian Jewish writer, was the son of a tailor and grew up in a shtetl, Jonava, the setting for many of his novels."
Valkininkai, Alytus County, Lithuania
"People gallery, a stunning Torah Ark made of layers of etched glass, takes inspiration from the Torah Ark of the wooden synagogue of the shtetl of Valkinik (Valkininkai), which was destroyed by the Germans in 1941."
Warsaw, Mazovia, Poland
"Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is the Ronald S. Lauder Chief Curator of the Core Exhibition for POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw."
Chmielnik, Holy Cross, Poland
"Yes, there are other shtetl museums, in Chmielnik, Tykocin, and Pock, all of them in former synagogues with limited space and resources."
Tykocin, Podlachia, Poland
"Yes, there are other shtetl museums, in Chmielnik, Tykocin, and Pock, all of them in former synagogues with limited space and resources."
Pock, Mazovia, Poland
"Yes, there are other shtetl museums, in Chmielnik, Tykocin, and Pock, all of them in former synagogues with limited space and resources."

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