The Holocaust
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3 Day Tour
Lithuania – Holocaust by bullets
This tour will be available throughout 2016
Day 1
Day 2
Walking tour of ‘Jerusalem of the North’
includes:
Vilnius Choral Synagogue
The Small Ghetto
Historic former Jewish quarter and site of the
glass-blowing market which was eliminated in
October 1941.
Monument to Vilna Gaon
Vilna Gaon Eliyahu den Shlomo Zalman was
one of the most prominent Jewish sages and
analysts of the Torah and Talmud.
The Big Ghetto
The Big Ghetto exisited from 6 Sep 1941 to
23 Sep 1943 and was home to some 29,000
people most of whom were subsequently
murdered in Paneriai.
Former site of the Great Synangogue
Main cultural and spiritual centre of Lithuanian
Jews. Built at the end of the sixteenth century it
was destroyed during the Holocaust.
In pre-war Vilnius there were more than, 100 synagogues - this is
the only one which remains.
Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum:
Holocaust Exposition
Guided visit of the museum’s exhibition focussing on the Holocaust
in Lithuania and local involvement in the actual killing. The chance
to view a reconstructed malina, a hiding place in the ghetto.
Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum:
Tolerance Centre
Guided visit includes the excellent ‘Rescued Lithuanian Jewish
Child Tells about Shoah’ exhibition.
Jewish Cemetery
The city’s third Jewish cemetery which now contains over 6,000
graves, including that of the Vilna Gaon, and many other Jewish
spiritual leaders, authors and historians.
Paneriai Memorial
Paneriai, known as Ponar to the Jews, lies about 10 km southwest
of the Old Town. Here, between July 1941 and July 1944,
approximately 70,000 people were murdered at this site by the
Nazis and the local Vilnius Special Squad. The visit includes several
monuments and the remains of pits where the victims were
killed and burned.
Free time in Old Town
The Holocaust
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Day 3
Slabodka
Ohel Jakov Choral Synagogue
This suburb of Kaunas was the location of the
Jewish ghetto until World War II.
This unusally designed synagogue is considered by many one of
the most beautiful altars in the Jewish world. At the side of the
building are 37 stone tablets, a memorial to Lithuanian Jewish
(Litvak) children killed during the Holocaust, each showing in which
towns and cities they lost their lives.
IXth Fort
Guided tour of the former military fortress which
during German occupation became a site of
torture and mass execution. Tour concludes
with a visit to the Memorial to the 30,000 Jews
and others from Lithuania and abroad who were
brutally murdered here.
Sugihara House
Guided visit of the audiovisual exposition in the Former Japanese
Consultate and residence of Chiune Sugihara, Japanese Vice
Consul to Lithuania who, in conjunction with Dutch Consul Jan
Zwartendijk, saved thousands of Jews by issuing visas allowing
them out of Soviet-occupied Lithuania.
Free time in Kaunas Old Town