During German rule, it was known as Memel . On the Web page is a listing of everything that has been published to date. It is six miles from the nearest train station that is located in Statziony . This is the shtetl that we found Yossell Bunka, the Internationally recognized wood carver and the only Jew still living in the town. He showed us the mass grave of the 75 Jewish teenage girls who were murdered by the Nazis as well as the 18 hand carved living tree Holocaust statues that he personally carved and set in place as a memorial to those Jews who died here.
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Check with inter-library loan to obtain the book. We visited the town in 1995 and have photos . The town square today, was previously the Jewish part of town and there is a wonderful large, metal statute of an old woman mounted in the middle of the square. The town itself looks like a typical Lithuanian shtetl and has a very well kept Jewish cemetery. We noticed some tombstones going back to the 1700s.