In the Polish revolution of 1831 a Polish regiment passed through Mariampol and carried away four of the Jewish elders who were faithful to the Russians, and left them, bound, in the forest.
In the same year, on the occasion of an encounter between the Russians and the Poles at Mariampol, the latter locked all the Jews in the synagogue, with the result that only one Jew was killed.
Mariampol has (1897) a total population of 6,298, of which over two thousand are Jews.
Mariampol lies on the banks of the Sesupe (Sheshupe) river, one of the tributaries of the Neman, the main river of Lithuania, about 55 km south-west from Kovno (Kaunas).
Among the Jews from Mariampol who immigrated to Eretz-Israel at the beginning of the century were: Rachel Solnik (in 1909), later the wife of Yehuda Gorodeisky, one of the founders of Rechovoth, Yisrael Yablokovsky (1912) and Baruch Leibovitz (in 1911), later Dr.Baruch Ben-Yehuda.
Mariampol was one of the first towns in Independent Lithuania in which the Jewish life was organized according to the Autonomy Law regarding minorities.
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