European Days of Jewish Culture

Time: Starts at 10:00 A.M. on September 3, 2023
Location: Lithuanian Jewish Community, Pylimo street no. 4, Vilnius; Choral Synagogue, Pylimo street no. 39, Cvi Park (Petras Cvirka Square across the street from the Lithuanian Jewish Community).

Exhibit “Ghetto Children Tell Their Story to Contemporary Children”
Time: September 4 to September 30, 2023
Location: Adomas Mickevičius Public Library, Trakų street no. 10, Vilnius.

Special Concert to Remember Victims of the Holocaust
Lithuanian prime minister Ingrida Šimonytė, patroness
Time: September 6, 2023
Location: Lėlė Theater, Arklių street no. 5, Vilnius.
by invitation only

Photography Exhibit “City of the Living, City of the Dead”
Time: 6:00 P.M., September 12, 2023
Location: Vilna Gaon Jewish History Museum, Naugarduko street no. 10, Vilnius.

Concert “In Shining Memory: The 80th Anniversary of the Destruction of the Warsaw and Vilnius Ghettos”
Time: 7:00 P.M., September 14, 2023
Location: Lithuanian National Philharmonic, Aušros Vartų street no. 5, Vilnius.

Tour Featuring Ponar Escape Tunnel
Time: 12 noon, September 16, 2023
Location: Ponar Memorial Complex, Agrastų street no. 15A, Vilnius.

Tour “Life of the Vilnius Ghetto through the Eyes of Children”
Time: 11:00 A.M. on September 18, 2023; 11:00 A.M. on September 20, 2023; 12 noon on September 22, 2023
Location: Adomas Mickevičius Public Library, Trakų street no. 10, Vilnius.

Tour of Vilnius Large Ghetto
Time: 5:00 P.M., September 19, 2023
Location: Meet at Žemaitijos street no. 4, Vilnius.

Readings for 3rd and 4th Grade Students from Marius Marcinkevičius’s Book “Akmenėlis” [Little Stone]
Time: 11:00 A.M., September 19, 2023; 11:00 A.M., September 21, 2023
Location: Adomas Mickevičius Public Library, Trakų street no. 10, Vilnius.

Discussion “Refugees, but Not Powerless: Polish Jewish Refugees in Vilnius from 1939 to 1944”
Time: 6:00 P.M., September 19, 2023
Location: Vilna Gaon Jewish History Museum, Naugarduko street no. 10, Vilnius.

Movie Night and Discussion of Jewish Vilna: Loic Salfati’s Documentary Film “Secrets of the Great Synagogue of Vilnius”
Time: 6:00 P.M., September 20, 2023
Location: Vilna Gaon Jewish History Museum, Naugarduko street no. 10, Vilnius.

Exhibit on History of Jewish Theater in Lithuania “Wandering Stars”
Time: September 20, 2023
Location: Museum of Lithuanian Theater, Music and Film, Vilniaus street no. 41, Vilnius.

Play “Stories of Ghetto Children”
Time: 5:00 P.M., September 20, 2023
Location: Konstantinas Sirvydas Square, Vilnius

Special Session of the Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania
Time: 10:00 A.M., September 21, 2023
Location: Lithuanian Parliament, Gedimino prospect no. 53, Vilnius.

Ceremony to Commemorate the Anti-Nazi Resistance and Victims of the Liquidation of the Vilnius Ghetto at the Ponar Memorial Complex
Time: 3:00 P.M., September 21, 2023
Location: Ponar Memorial Complex, Agrastų street no. 15A, Vilnius.
The victims of the Vilnius ghetto and the Holocaust will be remembered and honored during this ceremonial event.

Ceremony to Honor the Anti-Nazi Resistance and Victims of the Liquidation of the Vilnius Ghetto
Time: 1:00 P.M., September 21, 2023
Location: Rūdininkų square (territory of Vilnius ghetto).

Movie Night and Discussion of Jewish Vilnius: Documentary Film “Samuel Bak: Painter of Questions”
Time: 6:00 P.M., September 21, 2023
Location: Vilna Gaon Jewish History Museum, Naugarduko street no. 10, Vilnius.

Event to Mark the Day of Remembrance of the Genocide of Lithuanian Jews
Time: January 22, 2023
Location: Ninth Fort Museum, Žemaičių highway no. 73, Kaunas.

Play “Dulkės” [Dust]
Time: 6:00 P.M., September 22, 2023
Location: State Youth Theater, Arklių street no. 5, Vilnius.

Movie Night with Discussion of Jewish Vilnius: Excerpt from Documentary Film “Shoah” about Ponar. Shorts from YIVO in New York and the Washington, D. C., Holocaust Museum about Jewish Life in Lithuania before the War
Time: 6:00 P.M., September 22, 2023
Location: Vilna Gaon Jewish History Museum, Naugarduko street no. 10, Vilnius.

Play/Musical performance “Symphony of Dance from the Jerusalem of the North”
Time: 7:00 P.M., September 23, 2023
Location: State Youth Theater, Arklių street no. 5, Vilnius.

Play “My Name is Yitzhak”
Time: 4:00 P.M., September 23, 2023 2023-09-23 16:00 4:00 P.M. SUBJECT TO CHANGe
Location: Russian Drama Theater, Jono Basanavičiaus street no. 13, Vilnius.

Play “Ghetto”
Time: 4:00 P.M. on September 24, 2023; 6:00 P.M. on November 14, 2023
Location: National Drama Theater, Laisvės alley no. 71, Kaunas.

Movie Night with Discussion of Jewish Vilnius: Dovilė Gasiūnaitė’s Film “Jerzy Orda. Anarchistas pagal šv. Augustiną [Jerzy Orda: Anarchist according to St. Augustine]”
Time: 6:00 P.M., January 26, 2023
Location: Vilna Gaon Jewish History Museum, Naugarduko street no. 10, Vilnius.

Screening of Documentary Film “The Vilnius Ghetto: Historical Twists and Turns”
Time: 5:30 P.M., September 28, 2023
Location: Adomas Mickevičius Public Library, Trakų street no. 10, Vilnius.

International Conference “Communism and Anti-Semitism”
Time: 10:00 A.M., Novermber 7, 2023
Location: Lithuanian Parliament, Gedimino prospect no. 53, Vilnius.

This conference to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the anti-Nazi resistance and liquidation of the Vilnius ghetto is being held by the Lithuanian Jewish Community, the YIVO Jewish research institute, Poland’s Jewish Historical Institute and the Goodwill Foundation.

“From history we draw experience, from experience the living part of our practical mind is formed.”–Johann Gottfried Herder