A recent storm caused damage in the Suderves street Jewish cemetery in Vilnius, the only functioning Jewish cemetery in the city. The Lithuanian Jewish community reports that “many grave monuments fell down and some broke.”
It did not provide further details, but asked people with relatives buried in the cemetery to contact the cemetery administration for information about the graves of their loved ones.
The administration’s telephone number is +370 67025750 and the email is [email protected]
The cemetery was established in the early 1940s. The remains of the Gaon of Vilna were re-interred in an ohel there after the Old Jewish Cemetery was razed under the Communist regime.
The news is the latest report of storms or other natural disasters damaging Jewish heritage sites in recent weeks, after a violent storm downed trees and damaged the New Jewish Cemetery in Krakow, and the devastating flash floods in Germany ravaged the Jewish cemetery and synagogue in Ahrweiler.