Museums, Memorials & Cultural Institutions

WEB SITES

Defending History (Lithuanian Jewish and Holocaust Studies)

A web site run by the scholar Dovid Katz about Lithuanian Jewish and Yiddish culture and heritage. 

Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania

Searchable web site linked to the project “Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania”, which was luanched in 2010 by the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum and the Austrian Verein Gedenkdien. it is aimed at education, spreading of information, and tourism. The atlas and searchable web site consist of structured and concentrated information on all the mass murder sites in Lithuania.

MUSEUMS & INSTITUTIONS

VILNIUS

Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum, Vilnius

Naugarduko g. 10/2, LT-01141 Vilnius.
Tel. +37 (0) 5 231 23 57.
Fax +37 (0) 5 231 23 58.
Email [email protected]

Exhibitions in several branches in Vilnius, as well as the vast memorial at the Paneriai forest outside of town.

Tolerance Center
Naugarduko g. 10/2, LT-01141, Vilnius.
Tel: +37 (0) 5 262 96 66, +370 5 231 23 57.
Fax: +37 (0) 5 231 23 58.
Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Paneriai Memorial Museum
Agrastų g. 15, LT-02243 Vilnius.
Tel: +37 (0) 680 81 278.
Email [email protected]

Judaica Research Centre in the National Library of Lithuania

The Judaica Research Centre was established in the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania (NLL) in May 2017. The main tasks of the Centre are research of Jewish documentary heritage, organization of educational and information projects, and dissemination of comprehensive information about their results.

Vilnius Jewish Public Library

KAUNAS

Ninth Fort Memorial Complex

Žemaičių plentas 73,
LT-47435 Kaunas (Lithuania)
Tel.: +370 37 377750
Fax: +370 37 377715
E-mail: [email protected]

Museum and monument in fortress where about 30,000 Jews were murdered in World War II.

Sughihara House

Vaizganto str. 30
LT- 44229, Kaunas Lithuani

Mobile: +370 698 02 18

Tel/Fax.: +370 37 3328814

Email: [email protected]

Museum devoted to the life and work of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sughihara, who rescued Lithuanian Jews during the Holocaust.

KEDAINIAI

Multicultural Center, Regional Museum

Senoji rinka 12

LT-57247 Kėdainiai

Tel: +37 (0) 8 347 51778

Opened in 2002, the Center is located in the 19th century Winter Synagogue, one of two synagogues standing next to each other in the town center. It has an exhibition on local Jewish history.

PLUNGE

Jakov Bunkas Charity and Support Fund

V. Mačernio g.
6-16
Plungė
Tel: 
+37 (0) 682 29929
Email: [email protected]

Foundation fostering documentation and preservation of synagogues, Jewish cemeteries, Holocaust mass grave sites and memorials.

ŠEDUVA

Lost Shtetl Museum and Memorial Complex

The impressive Lost Shtetl Museum and memorial complex encompasses five sites in and around the small town of Šeduva. These include the restored Jewish cemetery, a state-of-the art Jewish museum opposite the cemetery that opened in 2025, and large sculptural monuments by Lithuanian sculptor Romas Kvintas that mark three sites in the area where, in the summer of 1941, local Jews were taken to be killed by Nazis and their Lithuanian accomplices and were buried in mass graves. There is also a commemorative sculpture in the village.

14 Žvejų Street, Šeduva, Lithuania

Lost Shtetl web site

SIAULIAI

Ausros Museum — Frenkelis Villa

Vilniaus St. 74

LT-76283 Šiauliai

Tel: +370 41 52 43 89

Email: [email protected]

Permanent exhibition on Jewish life and history in Siauliai, centered on the experience of the Chaimas Frenkelis family, leading local magnates who ran a big leather works. The exhibition is mounted in the family’s Art Nouveau mansion, dating from 1908, a period when Jews made up the majority of the town’s population.