The Second Jewish Cemetery

The second Jewish cemetery was established approximately 400-600 meters from the first Jewish cemetery situated on the Kupa coast. The former Kupa primary school and the Kupiškis hospital stand not far away from the second Jewish cemetery. Unfortunately, during the Soviet era, this Jewish cemetery, like many other Lithuanian Jewish cemeteries, was closed (around 1970), the monuments were demolished and used for the construction of streets in the town. Only a few tombstones remain, on the edge of the grounds of the former cemetery rebuilt after the Restoration of Independence, with inscriptions in Yiddish. Now there is a water tower in the center of the former cemetery. The cemetery was included in the Register of Cultural Property in 1993. The inscriptions of tombstones of the cemetery were translated by Larisa Lempertienė, the head of the Judaica department of the Martynas Mažvydas National Library, in 2018. The oldest tombstone dates back to 1883.