The Pušalotas (English spelling: Pusalotas) Photograph Series includes two photographs, one of a scene in a Jewish cemetery, and another of a group of children. The photograph taken in the cemetry is presumed to have been taken later, as it was captured in colour. The group photograph is of children of primary school age in a classroom from the Yiddish school in the town with their teacher.
This was a very small town from its conception, but it is known that Jewish communities were present from the 19th century at least. The town has been reported by previous residents to have had cordial relations between Lithuanians and Jewish settlers before the First World War. However, as with many other shtetlach, Soviet occupation in 1940 lead to tension between Lithuanians and Jews, which was followed by a collaborative process of systematic murder of the Jewish residents left in this shtetl by the time the German army started taking control of Soviet territories. In 1941, as news traveled that German troops were advancing, Soviet troops retreated, leaving Lithuanian nationalists and Jewish communities in the shtetl, awaiting German arrival. Lithuanian nationalists did not wait long before murdering their Jewish neighbours, not even waiting for the Nazis to arrive. this left very few Jewish residents by the time the Nazis arrived, but they were not saved from murder, instead being taken to a ghetto and shortly after a forest to be shot. [Source: https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Pusalotas/Pusalotas.html].
The town of Pušalotas (English spelling: Pusalotas) is named as such in Lithuanian, as Pushelaty in Russian, as Puszołaty in Polish, and as Pushelat in Yiddish.