The Bagel Shop tolerance campaign invites you to meet professor Markas Petuchauskas, a theatrical specialist, doctor of art history and the author of a number of books about the art of theater.

The meeting is to take place at 5:30 P.M. on June 16 at the Lithuanian Jewish Community at Pylimo No. 4 in Vilnius.

The professor plans to share his memories of the Vilna ghetto theater, its offerings and actors and the interaction of Lithuanian and Jewish culture. His new book Price of Concord/Portraits of Artists/Interactions of Cultures is to presented at the meeting.

Those who want to attend may register by sending an email to agne.zilinskaite@lzb.lt or by calling+370 613 81889 before 5:00 P.M. on June 15.

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Acceptances will take place on a rolling basis: the final date for submission is May 31, 2015. As an official policy, the MJC does not require payment of any participation fee and will provide accommodation for the duration of the conference. However, the MJC does not provide any financial support for travel to/from the conference or visa applications.

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Lithuanian Jewish community invites you: Come Honor the Victims of WWII at Cathedral Square Tonight at 9:00 P.M.

Dear friends,

You are kindly invited to a lecture on a very involving and still awaiting for further research topic – The history of Jewish resistance against the Nazi genocide in the occupied USSR.

The lecturer Anika Walke, Ph.D., is assistant professor of history at Washington University in St. Louis and her book is to be published at Oxford University Press.

Place and time: Vilnius Jewish Public Library, Gedimino 24, Vilnius, April 30, 2015, 5 pm

RSVP: info@vilnius-jewish-public-library.com or (8-5) 219 77 48

The Tolerance Centre of the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum, together with other institutions, this year will celebrate International Tolerance Day, which was included on the UNESCO list of international days of commemoration in 1995 (16 November). The other institutions that will take part in the commemorative events are the Embassy of Poland in Vilnius, Migration Board of Vilnius County Police Headquarters, and the Polish Institute in Vilnius.

The exhibition“Jan Karski. Man of Freedom” will be opened on the 13^th of November, 2014, at 5.00 p.m. in the Tolerance Center (Naugarduko Str. 10/2, Vilnius). Zygmunt Stępiński, deputy director of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews (POLIN), and Lena Dąbkowska-Cichocka, POLIN representative on the strategic development questions, will take part in the opening ceremony. The finalists of Citizen of the Republic of Lithuania, a competition for school students attending comprehensive schools in Vilnius district will also be awarded during this event. After the official part, we invite you to the concert of the Reszów Klezmer Band as a celebration of tolerance.

Please be so kind and print out the attached invitation before coming to our event.

Dear Friends, You are kindly invited to a film

THE LESSONS OF SURVIVAL. CONVERSATIONS WITH SIMON WIESENTHAL

screening to be held in Vilnius Jewish Public Library (Gedimino pr. 24, Vilnius) on October 28 at 5 PM.

The program also includes meeting the film creator INNA ROGATCHI

Invited speakres:

Prof. Irena Veisaitė and Mr. Darius Degutis – the Ambassador of the Republic of Lithuania to Israel in 2009-2014.

The film THE LESSONS OF SURVIVAL. CONVERSATIONS WITH SIMON WIESENTHAL was released at the end of 2013, and was successfully shown at important European public events. Its European premiere was at the European Parliament in January 2014 commemorating the International Holocaust and Remembrance Day. In March 2014, the film was shown at a special screening and discussion event at the Lithuanian Seimas (parliament).

In April 2014, The Israeli National News, in a profile written by Rochel Sylvetsky, described the film in the following way:

“Inna Rogatchi’s new film Lessons of Survival is the riveting film documentary on her never-before publicized conversations with the larger-than-life Nazi hunter as well as her own research into fascinating stories and facts about the Holocaust. Inna Rogatchi, too, is larger-than-life, and the noble role filled by the Rogatchi family in so many spheres is an example that is difficult to emulate”.

RSVP by e-mail to info@vilnius-jewish-public-library.com or by calling (8 5) 219 77 48

 Sincerely,

Žilvinas Beliauskas

Head of the Vilnius Jewish Public Library

http://vilnius-jewish-public-library.com/

Following the tradition of  the Czech film-evenings at the Tolerance Center of the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum, the Embassy of the Czech Republic and the Tolerance Center are cordially inviting you to a projection of a Czech movie “All My Loved Ones”

( “Všichni moji blízcí”,  Czech Republic, 1999, 91 min., with EN subtitles)
taking place on Wednesday, October 29, 2014, at 5.30 p.m.
at  Tolerance Center of the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum, Naugarduko g. 10/2, Vilnius.

„All My Loved Ones“ is a poetic story about unbelievable Sir Nicolas Winton‘s act of kindness – saving 644 Jewish children from death. The movie will be introduced by H. E. Bohumil Mazánek, Ambassador of the Czech Republic to the Republic of Lithuania.