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Beis hachaim · Lithuania
Vilnius Jewish Cemetery (Sudervės) — Ohel of the Vilna Gaon
Vilnius (Vilna) · ווילנא
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Who is buried here
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.
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.
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.
Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzenski
Reb Chaim Ozer
אחיעזר
Yahrzeit: 5700 / 1940
The rov of Vilna and the address for the questions of a generation, until his petirah in 1940. His kever, and those of his rebbetzin, his daughter and his brother, were moved to this cemetery when the old ground was cleared — the same move that brought the Gaon here.
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