Despite the assurance of the Lithuanian government that Jewish visitors to the cemetery in the frontier town, Lingmiany, would be admitted on Tisha B’Ab, the frontier was closed.
Hundreds of men and women assembled on the Polish frontier awaiting permission to enter, but returned home.
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