בית החיים ווילנא

Vilnius Jewish Cemetery (Sudervės) — Ohel of the Vilna Gaon

Vilnius (Vilna) · ווילנא

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Jewish cemetery, Sudervės g. 28, Vilnius, Lithuania

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1.The Vilna Gaon and his family rest in an ohel at the working Jewish cemetery on Sudervės road, on the northwest edge of Vilnius (the old Šnipiškės cemetery was razed under Soviet rule and the graves reinterred here).
2.The Ger Tzedek (Avraham ben Avraham, Count Potocki) and the Chayei Adam are also memorialized in the ohel. Confirm the gate and access arrangements with the Lithuanian Jewish Community before traveling.

Active Jewish cemetery on the city's edge; the Gaon's ohel is the focus. Arrange access with the Lithuanian Jewish Community (Vilnius).

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Vilnius (VNO)Vilnius International· 9.4 km · 6 mi straight-line· regional
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Kaunas (KUN)Kaunas International· 79 km · 49 mi straight-line· regional
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Minsk (MSQ)Minsk National· 204 km · 126 mi straight-line· regional
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Who is buried here

Known kevarim

רבי אליהו בן שלמה זלמן

Rabbi Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman

The Vilna Gaon · the Gra

אדרת אליהו · ביאור הגר״א · שנות אליהו

Yahrzeit: י״ט תשרי · 5558 / 1797

The Gaon of Vilna; reinterred in the ohel at the Sudervės cemetery after the old cemetery was destroyed.

אברהם בן אברהם

Avraham ben Avraham

The Ger Tzedek of Vilna — Count Valentin Potocki

Burned al kiddush Hashem in 1749. Moved together with the Gaon in 1950 when the old Šnipiškės cemetery was cleared, and memorialised in the same ohel.

רבי אברהם דאנציג

Rabbi Avraham Danzig

The Chayei Adam

חיי אדם · חכמת אדם

1748–1820. Dayan in Vilna. Chayei Adam is the sefer a great many baalei batim learnt their halacha from.

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