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Kaunas, Ziezmariai & Vilnius

17 July 2023

Kaunas - Google Search
Kaunas is the second-largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaunas was the…

 

Choraline Synagogue Kaunas - Google Search
Kaunas Synagogue (Lithuanian: Kauno choralinė sinagoga) is one of two operating choral synagogues in Lithuania. It is located in Centras eldership, Kaunas.

 

Kaunas Old Town - Google Search
A nice old town with beautiful architecture.A lot of cafes and restaurants with good food quality .Very quiet never crowded so no need for reservations…

 

 

Avraham Mapu Kaunas - Google Search
Abraham Mapu (1808 in Vilijampolė, Kaunas – 1867 in Königsberg, Prussia) was a Lithuanian novelist. He wrote in Hebrew as part of the Haskalah…

 

Ziezmariai - Google Search
Žiežmariai ( pronunciation (help·info)) is a city in the Kaišiadorys district municipality, Lithuania. It is located 6 km (3.7 mi) south of Kaišiadorys.

 

Hotel Conti Vilnius - Google Search
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Tolerance Education Centre Lithuania - Google Search
The Network of Tolerance Education Centers is the unique educational project in Lithuania. The creation of the network has started in 2003.

Meeting with Ingrida Vilkiene

Jewish Vilnius - Google Search
Vilnius’ Jewish population today is 5,000, a mere five percent of what it once was. The country is home to but 6,500 Jews, some 200 of whom are Holocaust…

Choral Synagogue Vilnius - Google Search
The Choral Synagogue of Vilnius (Lithuanian: Vilniaus choralinė sinagoga) is the only synagogue in Vilnius that is still in use. The other synagogues were…

 

Vilnius Old Town - Google Search
The Old Town of Vilnius one of the largest surviving medieval old towns in Northern Europe, has an area of 3.59 square kilometres (887 acres).

 

 

 

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Sugihara House Museum

My second visit to the Museum, but first time meeting with Simon Davidovich, director of the Museum and Jewish tour guide. Also visiting the Museum were Richard Freedman of the Holocaust Centre in Cape Town and Saulius Mikuckis. This was my second meeting with Ramunas Garbaravicius of the Museum.
The Museum is a must visit when in Kaunas.

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Video – Simon Davidovich:

Visit: http://defendinghistory.com/sugihara-house
From their website:

Chiune Sugihara (1900 — 1986) was Vice Consul for the Japanese Empire in Kaunas, Lithuania from 1939 to 1940. With a breathtaking generosity of spirit, risking his career and his family’s safety, Sugihara wrote and stamped visas that facilitated the escape (and, as it turned out, rescue from near-certain murder at the hands of the Nazis who invaded in June 1941) of over six thousand Jews to Japanese territory. Entire Jewish institutions, most famously the Yeshiva of Mir (Mírer yeshíve) survived the Holocaust thanks to Sugihara. Sugihara’s legendary consulate building in Kaunas is now a high-powered condensed museum that is a testament for locals and visitors alike to the power of courage to do the right thing.

Video: Rabbi Levi Wolff of Sydney Central Synagogue talks about Sugihara.

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