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Vaskai Photograph Series
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The Vaškai (English spelling: Vaskai) Photograph Series includes one photograph of the Yavneh class at the local Hebrew school. The children in this photograph are part of an organisation that attempted to revitalize and promote Jewish identity and spirtuality in young people.
The chaotic pattern in Eastern Europe and nearby regions in the first half of the 20th century – mostly as a result of the two World Wars – consisted of sporadic occupation, independence, and reoccupation of territories. Following the same pattern as many shtetlach in Eastern Europe, particularly in Lithuania, Vaskai was part of the Russian Empire until the First World War when it was occupied by Bolsheviks. In the interwar years, the town was part of the Independent Republic of Lithuania. However, the population of Jews decreased more since Jews left as economic conditions declined, mostly immigrating to America and South Africa. This independence was disrupted by Soviet invasion in 1940, and once again by Nazi invasion in 1941 at the start of the Second World War when Soviets and Nazis declared war. Jews remaining in Vaskai were transported to Pasvalys, where they were murdered alongwith those residents, and buried in mass graves. [Source: https://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/pinkas_lita/lit_00276b.html].
The town of Vaškai is named as such in Lithuanian, as Konstantinovo in Russian under the Russian Empire until 1918, as Konstantynów in Polish, and as Vashky in Yiddish.
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Donated by The South African Jewish Board of Deputies Archive
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Unless otherwise stated the copyright of all material on the Jewish Digital Archive Project resides with the South African Jewish Museum.
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- SAJBOD Archives (Donation)
- Lithuanian and Surrounding Towns Collection (Collector)
- SAJM Jewish Digital Archive Project (JDAP) (Custodian)