If you walk from the Cathedral towards the Sundial square, you can see beautiful stairs with many steps. The stairs were built in the 1960s from slabs of multi-coloured granite. These slabs were made from tombstones brought from the Jewish cemetery.
The old Jewish cemetery was opened in Šiauliai in 1701, and was used until 1965. Then the Government ordered to rebury the remains. According to Jewish tradition, the reburial is not allowed, so only few people did it.
There are more such places in Šiauliai where tombstones were used: in the yards of Algirdas Julius Greimas Street and on Kaštonų Lane, there are fences made of such stones. Some of the monuments were crushed and poured into the streets as rubble. During the renovation of Šiauliai Swimming Centre “Delfinas” fragments of the old tombstones from Šiauliai Jewish cemetery were also found.
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