Images & Maps
A map showing the probable migration route (and a possible alternative migration route) taken by Nick’s great-grandfather.
The site of the old cemetery in Pikeliai, Northern Lithuania. Many of the gravestones were removed in the post-war period, probably for re-use as building materials.
A map of the Baltic showing present day borders.
A map of the Pale of Settlement. This was the part of the Russian empire that existed from 1791 until 1917 in which permanent residency by Jews was allowed and beyond which Jewish residency was mostly forbidden.
An old building in Pikeliai, Northern Lithuania, where Jews probably lived and worked.
The site of the old synagogue in Pikeliai, Northern Lithuania.
Information about Nick’s next book
Nick’s next book will be about the modern history of Jews in Ireland, again using the experiences of the paternal line of Nick’s family as a way of choosing the wider subjects about which to write.