The Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum plans to build a new visitor center at the Paneriai Memorial Complex on the outskirts of Vilnius within the next few years and to continue updating its exhibitions.
Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum
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An exhibition of portraits by Litvak painter Rafael Chwoles is opening at the Tolerance Centre of the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum on Tuesday.
The Vilnius Gaon State Jewish Museum has expressed astonishment over the Lithuanian administration's plans of founding a new Museum of Jewish History in or next to the reconstructed Vilnius Concert and Sports Palace.
Events marking the International Holocaust Remembrance Day are getting underway in Lithuania on Thursday.
A team of experts from the United Kingdom, Canada, Israel and Lithuania is starting to study the remains of the Great Synagogue of Vilnius and other ritual constructions buried under the ground. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.
The Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum presents the exhibit, Holocaust by Bullets, Yahad - In Unum - 10 Years of Investigations, from October 1 to November 22, 2015.
“He was like a captain of a ship,” Kaunas ghetto resistance leader commemorated at Holocaust Exhibit
The Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum Holocaust Exhibit, housed in a traditional wooden green house on Pamėnkalnio gatvė, commemorated the 70th anniversary of the liquidation of the Kaunas ghetto on 30 September. The commemoration was scheduled to coincide with the centennial of the birth of the museum...
Over 70 people who saved Jews during World War Two have applied to be granted the status of freedom fighters in Lithuania. They became eligible to such a status after new amendments came into force a month and a half ago.
