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LITHUANIAN SHTETL TOURS
Duration: TBD
Price: email me for a quote
There were many shtetls in Lithuania. In some of them there were up to 80% Jews. I have visited many of them, saw many wooden houses and the red brick houses which are said to be Jewish houses, saw many abandoned synagogues. I'll be driving you in a comfortable 5-seat Volvo. Please email me for a quote if you'd like to visit one of the Lithuanian shtetls.
A WALKING TOUR AROUND
THE VILNA JEWISH QUARTER
Duration: 2.5 - 3 hours
Price: €250 (incl. taxes)
This insider look by the local litvak is a walking tour around the Vilna's Jewish Quarter. We will follow the traces of Jewish culture in the old town where the Great Jewish Synagogue was built in 1633 and Gaon of Vilnius used to live and study. Through pictures that I had prepated you will see the grandness of that site. You will hear a story about Jewish partisans, their fight and the personal fight of Vilna poets, journalists and artists to save multiple Jewish valuables by hiding them in the ghetto. You will see astonishing pictures of ghetto's hiding places ("malinas") and stand next to the buildings where once many Vilna great people lived and created. We shall also walk into the Choral synagogue, and explore a very old mazzes-making machine there. This tour will give you a good feeling what life was like in Vilna before the atrocities of WWII, and what role the Jewish population had in my home-town and beyond.
A WALKING TOUR AROUND
THE VILNA JEWISH QUARTER +
A DRIVE TO PONAR FOREST
Duration: 5.5 - 6 hours
Price: €350 (incl. taxes)
This is a longer tour. We shall start with the walking tour around Vilna's Jewish Quarter. After that I will drive to the mass Jewish murder site on the outskirts of Vilna - Ponar forest. I'll be driving you in a comfortable and safe 5-seat Volvo.
A WALKING TOUR AROUND
THE VILNA JEWISH QUARTER +
A DRIVE TO PONAR FOREST +
A DRIVE TO JEWISH CEMETRY
Duration: 6 - 6.5 hours
Price: €500 (incl. taxes)
This is the longest of my tours in Vilna. During this tour we shall first go on the walking tour around the Jewish quarter of Vilnius. After the walking tour and a short lunch break I will drive you to the mass Jewish murder site of the outskirts of Vilna - the Ponar forest. We will finish the tour at the only currently operating Jewish cemetry in Vilna. I'll be driving you in a comfortable and safe 5-seat Volvo.