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Beat of Jewish history in three Baltic States is still appreciable!
Come and get acquainted with many important objects and places to Jewish people in the Baltic States, such as Medieval Jewish quarter, Ghettos of Vilna, Jewish State Museum, Ninth Fort Museum, Memorial to the victims of the Nazis and others.
Visit Jewish communities and share one's experience and feelings with others.
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foto: A.Mačiūnas
Vilniaus g. 74, Šiauliai , Šiaulių miesto sav.
(8 41) 524 390
The palace was built by major industrialist, Chaim Frenkel, in 1908, who, in the late 19th century opened one of the largest and most modern leather...
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The new synagogue was built in the middle of the 19th century. It was built by the town’s richest tailor I. Vilneris. It is a two-story building. Men would pray on the first floor and women on the second floor. Two memorial tables in...
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Jews were gradually creating Vilnius, formed in their residential neighborhood. The Nazi occupation, it formed the small ghetto (Stiklių, Gaono, M. Antokolskio, Jewish Streets), in which violence whip around 11 000 Jews. Little Ghetto...
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Chiune Sugihara (1900-1986) was the Japanese Vice Consul to Lithuania in Kaunas for a brief period between 1939 and 1940. Together with the acting Dutch Consul Jan Zwartendijk he saved thousands of Jews over s short three-week period in 1940 by...
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E.Ožeškienės g. 13, Kaunas , Kauno miesto sav.
This sinagogue represents the type of reformed sinagogues, that became common in towns of nowadays Lithuania by the end of XIX century. Reformed sinagogues have richer...
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The aron -kodesh in Jurbarkas' synagogue and a fragment of the bimah. Photo by V. Ramanauskas (1936)
The Baroque wooden synagogues, with high, staged roofs, which stood in small towns did not survive, either....
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The Tolerance Center of the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum is located in a building which has long been in Jewish hands. Originally, back at the end of the 19th century, the Association of Cheap Jewish Cafeterias set up an operation where those...
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Between 1941 and 1944 brought the SS butchers and their helpers in the Lithuanian forest of Paneriai about 100 000 people, most of them Jews. A in its simplicity all the more depressing memorial to the four shooting trenches reminiscent of the...
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The Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum is a national, government-financed institution that collects, conserves, investigates, restores and exhibits the historical, material and spiritual heritage of Lithuanian Jews, traditional and modern Jewish...
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9, Kaunas street , Alytaus miesto sav.
The sinangogue was built in the end of XIX a. in Kaunas street. It has a style of istoricism. However in the fires of 1909 and 1911 it perished. Present day sinagogue was rebuilt in 1911 following...
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Built in 1903, the Torat Hakodesh Synagogue survived the war because the Nazis used the edifice as a medical store. It's a rather grand, modern-looking synagogue capped by a depiction of the tablets of the Ten ...
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The Ninth Fort is a stronghold in the northern Šilainiai elderate of the Lithuanian city of Kaunas, making a part of the Kaunas Fortress, constructed in the late 19th century. When the city was controlled by the Soviets, the stronghold was used...
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Jews were gradually creating Vilnius, formed in their residential neighborhood. The Nazi occupation, it formed the small ghetto (Stiklių, Gaono, M. Antokolskio, Jewish Streets), in which violence whip around 11 000 Jews. Little Ghetto...
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Alanta , Molėtų rajono sav.
Based on the assumptions and architectural style, it is considered that the sinagogue was built in the second part of XIX century.
foto: www.jewishstudies.lt
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Kaunas Jewish Comunity Center the focal point of the remaining members of the city’s once large and diverse Jewish community.
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