Until February 16, 2010  you can see a unique archival collection of 16 authentic posters from the Vilna ( Vilnius ) Ghetto. At the end of the summer of 1944, a group of partisans – former Ghetto prisoners – returned to their devastated homeland, where, among the ruins of the Jewish quarter, in various hiding places, and from the mountains of waste by the paper factory, they found and salvaged a great number of valuable Ghetto documents, including more than 200 Ghetto posters. Torn and ravaged, victims, like the people of the Ghetto, of violence and brutality, they are the chronicles of the cultural and spiritual life of the Vilna Ghetto. Like a mirror, they reflect the contrasts – cruelty and goodness, despair and endurance, egoism and sacrifice – of the tragic and isolated world of the Ghetto.

We invite you to visit our new  temporary exhibition at the Tolerance Center "Rescued Lithuanian Jewish Child Tells About the Shoah"  

Upcoming events at the Tolerance Center:

2010 02 19, 18.00. “Silent Cinema” (“The Painted Bird”) – Polish artist’s Wieslaw Rosocha graphic works exhibition. The Tolerance Center of the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum presents famous Polish graphic artist‘s Wieslaw Rosocha (born in 1945) exhibition „Silent Cinema“ („The Painted Bird“). The core of this exhibition are the works of W.Rosocha, inspired by the ambiguous  Jerzi Kosinsky‘s (1933 – 1991) book „The Painted Bird“. This book approaches the Holocaust issues in Poland. Dr. proffessor Andrzej Zieniewicz from  Warsaw‘s University will be participating in the openinig of the exhibition and will discuss J.Kosinsky‘s authobiographical book „The Painted Bird“. Exhibition „Silent Cinema“ („The Painted Bird“) will be open until 2010 04 23. Partners: Polish Institute and the Embassy of the Republic  of Lithuania in Poland.

2010 03 04, 17.30. “Shalom” association from Italy concert “Hatikva”. Performed by: Amit Arieli (clarinet), Giovanni Cifariello (guitar), Dayana Gnarra (voice and percussions). Partners: Italian Cultural Institute.  

2010 04 11, 12.00 – Sunday. B.Dvarionas music school’s Children concert, dedicated to “Pesah”.

2010 04 28, 17.00. Project “Tolerance – 2010”. The opening of the photo exhibition of the Italian photographer Gianluca Capri “Uni-Diversity”. (The exhibition will be open until 2010 05 30). Partners: Italian Cultural Institute.

2010 04 28, 18.00. Project “Tolerance – 2010”. Hans Krasa opera “Brundibar”. Partners: Italian Cultural Institute.

2010 05 02 Mothers Day. French musicians present the concert of F. Choppin and Jewish composers. Partners: French Cultural Centre.

2010 05 06, 17.30. Project “Tolerance – 2010”. Cantor’s Shmuel Barzilai from Austria performance. Partners: Embassy of the Republic of Austria in Vilnius.

2010 05 20, 17.30. Project “Tolerance - 2010”. Klezmer’s band "Rzeszow Klezmer Band" concert. Partners: Polish Insititute.

2010 06 01, 17.30. Project “Tolerance - 2010”. Spanish Embassy presents a photo exhibition from Spain. 

2010 07 27. Sacred painting of Grigorij Jakovlev “Contemporary Painting of the Old Believers in Lithuania”.  (The exhibition will be open until 2010 09 09).