NEWS & STORIES

The Evening Before Sara Henkin’s Wedding Around 1940, the Jewish community of Šeduva had something to celebrate: a new ritual bathhouse,...

Yona Yanet, the most honest man in town Meet Yona Yanet, Šeduva's only known vegetarian. He raised four children and three goats, all by...

Why Moisey Paturski needed a revolver In and around Šeduva many people recognized one particular middle-aged man with dark hair and round...

Yudatel Abromovich and the cult of the body The benefit of physical activity to the body and soul is not a new discovery. During the...

A horse named Fuks listened to hymns at the synagogue A horse named Fuks kept by the Grodnik family knew how to draw attention. For...

The town erudite Nochum Berman "The only problem is to be able to pick out the good from the very many mediocre, and, often, tasteless,...

How Chaim Goldin burnt down his hotel Somewhere around this spot once stood the hotel of the infamous Chaim Goldin. Whom the hotel served...

About Moyshe Fleysh, whom everyone called Maushuk After Sunday mass, hungry and sometimes cold residents of Šeduva would gather at a...

Nokhum Finkel's problems with tidiness and language Let's go to the Jewish school that was located somewhere very near here. It's 1922...

Sara Mel's New Year's at the Equator The bus stop which once stood here in the period between the two world wars was where people arrived...

How Hershel Kriger's parents renounced him Elke Hak, who came from an affluent family, decided to leave for South Africa. Since Šeduva's...

Mina Henkin's reforms in the name of tradition "Every present moment is the beginning of the future," wrote Mina Henkin, wife of the...

How Sulamita Nol escaped death Over the course of several days at the end of August, 1941, all the Jews of the shtetl were murdered in...

Ester Orlin's four years learning to farm In the interwar period, many young Jews from across Lithuania flocked to learn agriculture....

Chana Grodnik's special talents When residents of Šeduva got in trouble, they knew they could always go to one particular woman who never...

The love between Hinda Zarkey and Nokhum Berman It was here, one evening, that 15-year-old Hinda Zarkey sat down, overheated from...

The Šeduva Jewish History Museum, The Lost Shtetl , will officially open its doors to visitors on September 20. The museum’s main...

Today we are honored to welcome the President of Israel, Isaac Herzog, and the First Lady to the museum. President Herzog, a descendant...

This autumn, the Lost Shtetl Museum of Jewish History in Šeduva is going to open its doors to visitors and invites guides interested in...

Irith Koster, an organizational psychologist, training coach, and lecturer, visited the Lost Shtetl Museum, where she, together with...