Virtual Jewish Vilnius tour

Vilnius – Lithuanian Jerusalem Visit  Vilnius Synagogue built in Moorish- Romanesque style. Walking in the medieval Jewish Quarter of Vilnius – Lithuanian Jerusalem.  Stop at the Vilna Gaon street and see the location of the Great Vilna Synagogue.  Vilnius Ghetto streets and Vilna Gaon’s house; the spot of the Great Synagogue.

Music school where Jasha Heifetz did his first steps in a music career, the building of the famous ORT school, the building of the famous Tarbut Gimnazia, and nowadays JCC.

The Big Ghetto and the story of suffering, resistance, and partisans. Judenrat office and the story of “choiceless choices.” Recreated hiding place in the cellar, where Jews were hiding after the liquidation of the Ghetto. Ghetto theatre as the center of Spiritual resistance. We will visit the dwellings for the poor Jews and the place of the labor camp during WWII. We will finish the Jewish Vilnius tour with a drive to Ponar forest and the Holocaust memorial. It is the sight of the extermination of 100 thousand people, among which 70 thousand were Jews.