ShtetLinks Site for Svencionys, Lithuania
Marjorie Rosenfeld
for a ShtetLinks site I'm making for Svencionys, Lithuania
(also known as Shvencionys, Shvencionis, Shvenchenis, and
Shventshenis and formerly known as Shvintzion, Shvyentsiani,
Shvyetsiani, Stojaciszka, Svenchan, Sventsian, Sventsiany,
Sventzion, Swenziany, and Swieciany).
I've probably identified every possible Web site on Svencionys
by searching for this shtetl under each of its various names.
This has yielded a lot of information on present-day Svencionys
but much less on what this shtetl was like in the past. I have
a lot of information on Jewish History in Lithuania, and
particularly on Jewish religious movements; but I have little
information on how these movements were perceived in Svencionys.
I'm lacking material that would give people a sense of what life
was like in Svencionys before the Holocaust, and I'm also lacking
Svencionys survivor stories.
A particular problem has been that I'm not near a major library,
and so far the few library books I've encountered on Lithuanian
Jewish history mention Svencionys (or one of its alternates)
either not at all or only in passing. I have a lengthy list of
books that deal with Lithuanian Jewish history or the Holocaust in
Lithuania, and I can get books through Inter-Library Loan, of
course. It would be folly (i.e., expensive and time consuming),
though, to order 50 books through Inter-Library Loan without knowing
whether what I'm ordering even has any information on Svencionys.
Thus, I'll very much appreciate anything anyone can contribute--
even if it's only a suggestion on what would be fruitful to look
at. I'm hoping to be able to make my Svencionys site as complete
as the site I did for Brody, Ukraine, at:
http://www.jewishgen.org/shtetlinks/brody/brody.htm
Please reply privately.
Best wishes to all--
Marjorie Stamm Rosenfeld marjorie...@earthlink.net
Carlsbad, CA
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