by Daiva Zimblienė, lrytas.lt

A new book called “Ukmergės žydų bendruomenės istorija” [History of the Jewish Community of Ukmergė] is being passed around from hand to hand in Ukmergė. The almost 500-page book published in Lithuanian and English contains many important historical dates, interesting facts, documents and quotations about the Jews who lived in Ukmergė.

“I am not an artist, only a collector of historical facts. For about 15 years I carefully selected and accumulated different facts about the history of the city and district of Ukmergė. One computer folder began to grow quickly with material about the Ukmergė Jewish community. And that makes sense, because Jews were for several centuries the largest ethnic community in Ukmergė, you could say the dominant one,” author Julius Zareckas, deputy director of the Culture and Public Relations Department of the Ukmergė Ukmergė regional administration, said.

He said the new book is the second book of the same title which first appeared in 2008, with additional material and much more solid research.

Full story in Lithuanian here.