A memorial plaque to Emanuel Levin in Kaunas
WORTH VISITING: It surprises no one when a boy who spent all his childhood in his father`s bookstore in his adult years becomes a philosopher existentialist. But when a professor of Sorbonne university says that he published his first article...
Hasidic kloiz in Kaunas
WORTH VISITING: The extant building of Chasidic kloiz in Kaunas reminds us of many differences in the Kaunas Jewish community before the Second World War. Also, this place is a rare historical site of rather marginal Chasidic community in Kaunas....
A sculpture to Danielius Dolskis in Kaunas
WORTH VISITING: It would be difficult to find a Lithuanian citizen, who never heard (or sang) the nostalgic song "My love has drowned in the sea of Palanga...". The author of this song and many other popular Lithuanian songs, the...
Vilijampolė (Slobodka) yeshiva in Kaunas
WORTH VISITING: In the 19th century, Slobodka or Vilijampolė yeshiva was one of the biggest and most famous yeshivas both in Lita and in all Europe. The number of its students clearly exceeded the number of students in other yeshivas...
Tsvi Hirsh Neviazher kloiz in Kaunas
WORTH VISITING: The majority of extant Jewish prayer house buildings in Kaunas are kloiz buildings, one of such is Tsvi Hirsh Neviazher kloiz building erected in 1851. However, this kloiz is much different from the rest. First of all, it...
House-Museum of Chiune Sugihara in Kaunas
WORTH VISITING: The history of Kaunas during the harsh times of the Second World War is unimaginable without Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara (1900 – 1986). In the summer of 1940, he gave away so-called Life visas, which helped thousands of...
Memorial plaque to Leja Goldberg in Kaunas
WORTH VISITING: Famous Hebrew poet Leja Goldberg sometimes is called as Princess Leja between her fans. This princess of Hebrew poems found her talent when she was still a schoolgirl in interwar Kaunas. Although today Leja is mostly remembered as...
Butchers` synagogue in Kaunas
WORTH VISITING: Each big Jewish community in Lithuania usually had not only one or two general beit midrashes or synagogues, where all members of the community gathered during the great holidays, but there were also smaller prayer houses for everyday...
The building of new beit midrash in Kaunas
WORTH VISITING: The building of the former new beit midrash in Kaunas stands out among the surrounding buildings – it is like a ghost from the past, which former function today is known or remembered only by a few daily...
The 9th Fort in Kaunas
WORTH VISITING: The 9th Fort in Kaunas is a building with one of the most paradoxical histories in the city: at the beginning of the 20th century it was built as a defensive fortification to save local people, but eventually,...