| Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė’s visit to the Centre for Tolerance at the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum | President Dalia Grybauskaitė visited the museum on 2 October 2009. The main aim of the visit which lasted for an hour was to see the new permanent multimedia exhibition “Rescued Lithuanian Jewish Child Tells about the Shoah”.
Upon the arrival the president was met by the director of the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum J. Markas Zingeris and the head of the Centre for Tolerance, Ieva Šadzevičienė.
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Dalia Grybauskaitė met the head of the Righteous Gentiles Department, Danutė Selčinskaja, who is also the curator of the new exhibition. Selčinskaja showed the president the successfully implemented museum’s project “Rescued Lithuanian Jewish Child Tells about the Shoah”, which had been opened a few days before.
The Lithuanian president also saw the other exhibitions at the Centre for Tolerance. Aleksandra Jacovskytė, the exhibition guide of the centre, took the president around. The president was interested in the museum’s activities and the main problems facing the museum which were discussed with the museum’s director Zingeris.
At the end of the visit Dalia Grybauskaitė wrote in the visitors’ book of the exhibition “Rescued Lithuanian Jewish Child Tells about the Shoah”: “The experience of the Holocaust is a lesson testifying to the fragility and inimitability of human life. We have to protect it, whatever the historical circumstances.” |
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Photographer P. Račiūnas |
| | Modified: 10/28/2009 |
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