My visit to Dyatlava with Tamara Vershitskaya in 2018
With Tamara Vershitskaya and Elena Radomskaya in Zhetl in June 2018
Meeting Phil and Aldona Shapiro in Birzh, Lithuania in June 2019.
My visit to Dyatlava with Tamara Vershitskaya in 2018
With Tamara Vershitskaya and Elena Radomskaya in Zhetl in June 2018
Meeting Phil and Aldona Shapiro in Birzh, Lithuania in June 2019.
The Jewish member of the Seimas, the Lithuanian Parliament
Emanuelis Zingeris (born 16 July 1957 in Kaunas, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian philologist, museum director, politician, signatory of the 1990 Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania, currently serving as a Member of the Seimas (1990–2000 and since 2004), chairman of its foreign affairs committee (since 2010), Vice President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (since 2009) and President of the Parliamentary Forum of the Community of Democracies (since 2010).[1] A Lithuanian Jew, he has been director of the Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum, honorary chairman of Lithuania’s Jewish community, and is Chairman of the International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania. He is a founding signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism, that proposed the establishment of the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuelis_Zingeris
Emanuelis Zingeris MP talks about Avraham Mapu
Source: youtu.be/r_TGbEO9lsQ
The Choral Synagogue
From my 2017 visit:
The restoration of the Geliu synagogue Renovation of Synagogue on Geliu Gatve starts in Vilnius The Lithuanian Department of Cultural Heritage confirmed on July 21, 2015, the renovation of the syna…
Source: elirab.me/back-to-vilnius/
The Jewish cemeteries of Vinius are the three Jewish cemeteries of the Lithuanian Jews living in what is today Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, which was known to them for centuries as Vilna, the principal city of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Pale of Settlement of the Russian Empire. Two of the cemeteries were destroyed by the Soviet regime and the third is still active.