Holocaust Commemoration at Ponar

Holocaust Commemoration at Ponar

September 23 is the Day of Lithuanian Jewish Victims of Genocide and the Lithuanian Jewish Community invites you to attend a commemoration ceremony at the Ponar Memorial Complex outside Vilnius to remember the more than 70,000 people murdered there.

There will be a bus to ferry participants from central Vilnius to the memorial complex and back. Those wishing to ride the bus are required to register by sending a request to info@lzb.lt including your name and contact information. The bus will leave promptly at 12:15 P.M. on September 23 from the Sholem Aleichem ORT Gymnasium at Kraševskio street no. 5 in Vilnius and will not wait for late arrivals.

Time: 2:00 P.M., September 23
Place: Ponar Memorial Complex, Agrastų street no. 15A, Vilnius district