sentences:  Alanta suffered heavily from many wars, including Napoleon's invasion of the Russian Empire, World War I and World War II, because of its location on the crossing of two important roads.Whole Jewish community of 30 families, which made majority of Alanta population, was killed during the Holocaust in 1941 August  Alanta has a rare, surviving wooden synagogue.The palace of the estate, which houses a library and an ethnographic museum, has been renovated and its park trimmed.