Visiting the Jewish Cemeteries in Kaisadorys and Zasliai

Two years ago, in 1997, I did research on the Jewish cemeteries in Kaisadorys and Zasliai. These two little towns were part of the former Vilna province, and are located 35 kilometers from Kaunas, and 55 kilometers from Vilnius. This research was sponsored by Colonel Marvin This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Schneider from New York. His mother’s parents whose family name was Evensky lived in Kaisadorys before WWII. Now there are no Jews in Kaisadorys. The synagogue was burned. The small, very destroyed Jewish cemetery in Kaisadorys is located near a common cemetery.

Zasliai is located 7 kilometers from Kaisadorys. The Jewish cemetery there is on the little hill from the right side of the road just before the entrance to the town. Many tombstones are destroyed, but part of the cemetery still remains.

I cleaned all the remaining tombstones, brushed them, and covered with chalk powder the most erased, and then took Pictures of them all. The complete list of tombstones that I visited and photographed follows:

Pictures:
In the Zasliai Cemetery, the tombstones are hidden among trees and grass.	(2) Kaisadorys Cemetery
(3) Matzeva of Hanoch Tzvi ben Shabtai Davidowitz in Zasliai Cemetery	(4) Matzeva of Yosef ben Haim HaCohen in Zasliai Cemetery