February 10, 2015, M. and K. Petrauskas Museum of Lithuanian Music

The Kaunas branch of the M. and K. Petrauskas Museum of Lithuanian Music (K. Petrausko street no. 31) invites the public to attend the opening of an exhibit called “Prepared for Life: the ORT in Lithuania” at 4:00 P.M. on March 3. The exhibit illustrates the activities of the ORT organization in Kaunas including arts and crafts courses, daily school life, student-teacher activities, snapshots from school life, reminiscences of classmates and teachers, the importance of having a profession in the ghettos during the Holocaust and ORT activities around the world and in Lithuania today. The exhibit will run until April 4. Admission to the opening ceremony is free.

The mobile exhibition in Lithuanian and English was prepared by the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum and the World ORT with the cooperation of the Lithuanian Central State Archive and is dedicated to the history of the ORT as it operated in Lithuania between the world wars. The ORT is a Jewish educational and training organization which continues to operate today around the world.

Opening ceremony program:

Kamilė Rupeikaitė, deputy director of the Vilna Gaon Museum, will welcome guests.

Vilna Gaon History Department director Neringa Latvytė-Gustaitienė and Kamilė Rupeikaitė will present the exhibit.

Performances by:

Rokas Makštutis, performing C. M. von Weber’s Grand duo concertant part III

Stasys Makštutis, performing R.Schumann’s Romance op. 94 No. 1

B.Kovacs, performing “Sholem Alekhem , rov feidman!”

Rokas and Stasys Makštutis, performing Mendelssohn’s Concerto No. 2

Accompaniment by Jolita Makštutienė

Exhibit link: www.kaunomuziejus.lt