Lithuania / Kaunas

House of Chiune Sugihara

Practical info

Type of location: House

House of Chiune Sugihara

Vaizganto g. 30, 44229 Kaunas

Tel : +370 37 332881, +370 652 43 999

Sugihara (sugiharahouse.com)

Historical description

Kaunas

Nothing of the Jewish presence in Kaunas remains but the synagogue, whereas before the war there was a yeshiva, a kosher slaughterhouse, and a prison. The birthplace of Emmanuel Levinas, Kaunas was before the Shoah a major center of European Judaism, with a ... Read more