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The Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum Holocaust Exhibit, housed in a traditional wooden green house on Pamėnkalnio gatvė, commemorated the 70th anniversary of the liquidation of the Kaunas ghetto on 30 September. The commemoration was scheduled to coincide with the centennial of the birth of the museum’s co-founder and Kaunas ghetto leader, Dmitrijus Gelpernas.
Rachil Kostanian - one of the founders of the Museum and the Holocaust Exhibition welcomes all guests and shares her memories about Dmitri Gelpern
Rachil Kostanian - one of the founders of the Museum and the Holocaust Exhibition welcomes all guests and shares her memories about Dmitri Gelpern

Gelpernas was honored for his efforts as a leader of Kaunas ghetto’s underground resistance movement, Antifašistiše kamfs organizational (Anti-fascist organization).

Head of the Holocaust Exposition, Rachelė Kostanian said, “He was like a captain of a ship. He was almost the last to leave the ghetto. He was trying to save as many p

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