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The creators of the Synagogue Square Memorial in Jurbarkas say that the monument to the western Lithuanian town's Jewish community will become part of the town's modern history and will revive the common history of Jews and Lithuanians.
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"We are creating this memorial not only for Jurbarkas, but for all people in Lithuania, because we think it's high time that we say: this is our common history, we have something to remember and something to preserve, something to be ashamed of and something to be proud of," David Zundelovitch, a

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