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Kretinga - Gallery
 
The Shtetl of the Gillis Family
Kretinga Road Sign
Kretinga Centre
Kretinga - Houses
Jonas Karolis Chodkevicius Memorial
Views of Kretinga
The Franciscan Monastery and Church in Kretinga
Kretinga - Franciscan Monastery
Benedictine Monastery - Kretinga
Tyszkiewicz Family Chapel
Kretinga - Franciscan Monastery
Kretinga Monastery
Kretinga - Franciscan Monastery
Kretinga Christian Cemetery
Kretinga Church
Kretinga Church
Kretinga Church
Church Interior
Church Door
Kretinga Church
Kretinga Palace
Kretinga Palace
Kretinga Palaca and Winter Garden
The Tyszkiewicz Manor House - Kretinga Museum and Winter Garden
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Kretinga Synagogue 1936
Kretinga Synagogue 1936 drawing
Kretinga Cemetery Entrance 2
Kretinga Cemetery Entrance
Kretinga - Jewish Cemetery 27
Kretinga - Jewish Cemetery 3
Kretinga - Jewish Cemetery 21
Kretinga - Jewish Cemetery 4
Kretinga - Jewish Cemetery 5
Kretinga - Jewish Cemetery 20
Kretinga - Jewish Cemetery 9
Kretinga - Jewish Cemetery 7
Kretinga - Jewish Cemetery 6
Kretinga - Jewish Cemetery 23
Kretinga - Jewish Cemetery
Kretinga - Jewish Cemetery
Kretinga - Jewish Cemetery
Kretinga - Jewish Cemetery
Kretinga - Jewish Cemetery
Kretinga - Jewish Cemetery
Kretinga - Jewish Cemetery
Kretinga - Jewish Cemetery
Kretinga - Jewish Cemetery
Kretinga - Jewish Cemetery
Kretinga - Jewish Cemetery
Kretinga - Jewish Cemetery
Kretinga - Jewish Cemetery
Kretinga - Jewish Cemetery
Kretinga - Jewish Cemetery
Kretinga - Jewish Cemetery
Remains of the Jewish Cemetery in Kretinga
The Synagogue in Kretinga - Built in 1860 and burnt by the Nazis on the 26th July 1941
Synagogue and Akmena River
German War Map 1941
German Nazi War Map of Crottingen Compiled in 1941
Map compiled from Prussian map of 1912 and Russian map within Lithuania. Note German Crottingen in the south, the border rail station and customs post at Bajohren, Krottingen -Kretinga and the the Pryschmonty - Prysmanciai farm east of the town which shortly after the publication of this map would become the first killing field of Kretinga Jewry.
For the full map sheet click here.

For links to a huge collection of old maps of Czarist Russia,Lithuania, East Prussia and the Kretinga area go to John Jaffers page at ShtetLinks.
Map of Modern Kretinga
Modern Map of Kretinga
Winter on the Manor Lake in Kretinga
Winter on the Manor Lake in Kretinga
Border Rail Station at Bajohren
The Rail Station at Bajohren Today
Prussian Border Guards Protect the Prussian Border with Russia
Brewery
Brewery
Winter Scene of Kretinga
Winter Scence of Kretinga
The Northern Most Station of Prussia at Bajohren
The rail station marked the border between Prussia and Russia. Today only the station buildings are left.
Kretinga Center
Houses and the Town Square of Kretinga
The Old Brewery and Winter Scenes
Kretinga Palace - Winter Garden
Kretinga Park