Private Walking Tour around Jewish Vilnius with a Local Litvak
Description
This is a unique tour with a litvak Ema Segal. Ema was born and raised in Vilnius in the 80s. This insider look is a 3-hour walking tour around the two Vilnius ghettos. We will follow the traces of Jewish life in the old Jewish Quarter where the Great Jewish Synagogue was built in 1633 and the house where great Gaon of Vilnius used to live and study. You will hear a story about the manifesto and the fight of Jewish partisans. We shall also walk into the Choral synagogue, and explore a very old mazzes-making machine there. I will show you a few buildings where Jewish printing houses, flour mills, money exchanges, jewelry shops used to be. This tour will give you a good feeling what life was like in Vilna before WWII, and what role the Jewish population had in this city and beyond. I will also share my personal experience of growing up Jewish in the post-Soviet Lithuania. This private tour is suited for 1-4 people group. Which allows for an intimate two-way communication.
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Small ghetto street. One of the central buildings used to belong to the famous book collector, researcher Shemuel Strashun.
The site of the Great Jewish Synagogue and shulhoyf. You will find out about the valuables which were found during the excavations on this site in the last 6 years.
We will stop by the Vilna Gaon Monument, I will tell the story about him, what he did, how he lived, and what a rich legacy he left after he died.
Vilna jewish doctor who was treating humans and animals hiw whole life. He was also educating the jewish community about sanitary living conditions. His niece Roza Shabad was the head physician of the Vilna ghetto.
We will look at the main buildings of Jewish ghetto where thousands of Jews were hiding in "malinas".
The only working synagogue in Vilnius.
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Important Information
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
- May be operated by a multi-lingual guide
- Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
Reviews(2)
If you do anything in Vilniu, do this tour! It is worth so much more. Emma has a wealth of knowledge and her English is impeccable She is one of the few people left in a once very Jewish city. She can show you places that you would never find by yourself
An excellent and informative tour of the old Jewish section of Vilnius. Our guide Emma is native born and very knowledgeable. She gave us a good history of the Jews of this city.
Thank you, dear Eliot! :-)
