Lithuania Jewish Records: Difference between revisions

Before World war II, Lithuania had avery strong Jewish population. The Jewish population was more than 150,000 people, which was more than 5% of the total population. vilinus (Wilno) was home to a population of about 100,000 Jews which was nearly half of that cities population. This population was almost entirely wiped out during the Holocaust. Today the Jewish population is most likely less than 7,000 people. Many of those who survived the Holocaust have emigrated to other countries, such as Israel, United States, South Africa and Brazil, which all have communities of Jews of Lithuanian descent.