January 26, 2015  Program:

11:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. Reading of the names of Holocaust victims at the synagogue, Pylimo no. 39, Vilnius

4:00 P.M. Ceremony to honor Holocaust victims at the Lithuanian Jewish Community. Jascha Heifetz Hall, 3rd floor, Lithuanian Jewish Community, Pylimo no. 4, Vilnius

To include:  

newly-appointed Israeli ambassador to Lithuania Amir Maimon

Lithuanian Jewish Community chair Faina Kukliansky

Vilnius Choral Synagogue cantor Shmuel Yatom

Opera soloist Rafailas Karpas

5:00 P.M. – 5:25 P.M. Coffee break

5:30 P.M. Presentation and discussion of new book by Dr. Arūnas Bubnys, director of the Center for the Study of the Genocide and Resistance of Residents of Lithuania, on the ghetto in Shavl (Šiauliai), Lithuania