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Born and raised a few doors from here at what’s now J. Basanavičiaus 18 as Romain Kacew (Katsev), Romain Gary became a prize-winning French author after moving to the country with his mother when he was 14.
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Chiune Sugihara
Chiune Sugihara (1900-1986) was the Kaunas-based Japanese consul to Lithuania for the briefest of periods during 1939 and 1940.
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Jewish Cemetery
By Soviet order, both old Jewish cemeteries were destroyed after the war. With the help of foreign diplomacy only a few graves of famous people such as the Gaon of Vilna were moved here in a concession to the community.
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Jewish tours
Professional guides lead tours in English and Hebrew through the Baltics and Belarus.Yulik Gurvitch Tel. +370 699 907 09Ilya Lempertas Tel.
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Map of the Ghetto
On the site of the former gate to the larger of Vilnius’ two ghettos, find a map showing the size and positioning of the area where the city’s Jewish population were kept before liquidation commenced.
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Romain Gary
Born and raised a few doors from here at what’s now J. Basanavičiaus 18 as Romain Kacew (Katsev), Romain Gary became a prize-winning French author after moving to the country with his mother when he was 14.
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Tsemach Shabad
A statue of Doctor Tsemach Shabad (1864-1935), famous for numerous social acts as well as being the leader of the Vilnius
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Užupis Old Jewish Cemetery
Founded in 1828 at around the same time as the city’s original Jewish cemetery in Šnipiškės was closed, the
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Vilna Shul-hoyf
Prior to WWII this space was filled with dozens of prayer houses as well as the Great Synagogue, an enormous structure built several stories underground so that it wouldn’t surpass the height of any churches.
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Vilnius Yiddish Institute
Provides credit courses and the famed month-long summer programme in Yiddish, relocated from Oxford in 1998 by its founder, Professor Dovid Katz (www.
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