Warsaw, Brisk and Vilna - Part Three

On hour way east, to Belarus:

but on the way, a ticket for speeding:

Getting our papers in order:

And at the border crossing we spotted a...mouse:

First stop, the Menachem Begin Memorial:











And right next door, the Tachkemoni primary school he attended:

 



which also has a plaque:

 

Then down the street to the main drag 

 

 

where there is a cinema:

 

which is built on the remains of Brest's Great Synagogue with an original wall is visible at the entrance to the downstairs bathrooms:



Then a stroll through the old Jewish neighborhood where Begin's family lived in three different houses at different periods



led by Yeffim 



a local Jewish resident and historian, one of which was at 129 ulica Stefana Batorego which was Petroskavya in the pre-World War I Russian period:

and now Karbyshev Street

Some street scenes:















Here, in the back, you can see (barely) the local ken clubhouse of Betar in the 1930s:

 

(and what Betar Brisk, 1929, with Aaron Tzvi Propes looked like:)

 

And prior to that in HaShomer HaTzair:

 

and here holding up the white flag with his father #2:



Talk by Prof. Miriam Billig:

 

Talk by Racheli Tzemach, Hila Malki and Ofira Daniel:







We are in the Grynberg Family back yard area where Begin first met and heard Jabotinsky in 1929:



(and the original)



A memorial ceremony for Brisk's Jew who perished in the Holocaust:




And lunch at the Chabad House with Rabbi and Rebbitzen Rabinowitz:



We retired at the Hermitage:



End of Day Three

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