Klaipeda is the former German city of Memel, a place where Judaism came under the influence of the modern nineteenth-century Orthodoxy originating in Germany. The city is still home to some 300 Jews.
Klaipeda is the former German city of Memel, a place where Judaism came under the influence of the modern nineteenth-century Orthodoxy originating in Germany. The city is still home to some 300 Jews.
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17 November 2024 at 12 noon at the Gaon Museum in Vilna The museum is offering a guided tour of its exhibition devoted to the Shoah and this particular aspect of the trials that followed. ...
20 November 2024 |
This exhibition presents a little-known period of the painter’s life, in particular his sojourns in the two cities of Rome and Paris that were so inspiring and welcoming to artists. Samuel ...
30 July 2024 |
At the Vilna Gaon Museum This exhibition, dedicated to Kazys Morkunas, presents his stained glass windows and allows visitors to appreciate the reflections and highlights of the colours by the ...
20 May 2024 |
January 2024 at the Gaon Museum in Vilna Each month, the museum highlights certain objects from its collection. This month, they are books found on Jews killed in Kaunas during the Second World ...
16 January 2024 |
These are organised in the house that celebrates the memory of the Japanese diplomat who saved more than 6,000 Jews during the Holocaust by granting them visas. These tours also take place ...
19 June 2023 |
Until March 2023 at the Gaon Museum in Vilna On 24 October 2022, the Gaon Jewish History Museum in Vilna was honoured to welcome Queen Mathilde of Belgium, the First Lady of Lithuania, Diana ...
2 November 2022 |
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