The exhibition was mounted on twenty-two stands with the texts in each of them which are supplemented by authentic historical images, photographs of the political figures of the Second World War and items of Nazi propaganda.

J. Markas Zingeris, the director of the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum, the Bulgarian Ambassador Ivan Pentchev Dantchev, the Israeli Ambassador Chen Ivri Apter and the deputy minister of the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry, Asta Skaisgirytė-Liauškienė, addressed the guests.

The unique history of the Bulgarian Jews is an example proving that the fate of the Jewish population in Nazi-occupied Europe could have been different. As all stories with a happy end this one also has a dark side, which is the killing of the 11 343 Jews from Trakia and Macedonia in the Treblinka concentration camp. The documentary “Beyond Hitler‘s Grasp” (2000) by Nitzan Aviram which was shown on the eve of the exhibition is dedicated to these victims of the Holocaust.

The Bulgarian ambassador Dantchev said in his speech that “the venue of this exhibition – the Centre for Tolerance and Vilnius with its old traditions of the coexistence of various cultures and ethnic groups – reflects the meaning of the exhibition.”

Present also were the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Kingdom of Norway Steinar Gil, the Vice Consul of the United States of America Timothy Patric O‘Connor, the deputy head of the Mission of the Republic of Hungary Ferenc Blaumann, the French Cultural Attaché Audelin Chappuis, the coordinator for education projects of the International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania Ingrida Vilkienė, Prof. Dovid Katz and other diplomats and cultural figures.