Showing posts with label Vilna. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vilna. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Warsaw, Brisk and Vilna - Part Five

We crossed the border, successfully, 



and quicker than entering Belarus.  Arriving at Vilna, we drove straight to Ponyar Forrest:







UPDATE

They have now found the escape tunnel, see below.


We stayed the evening at the Conti in the city's old section



And ate at the Rishon Restaurant:








In the morning of our last day, touring:



President's residence:

Along Gaon Street:












The bust (work of a non-Jew):



A ghetto memorial:



Walking through Jewish Vilna:













A visit to the Maskilim Synagogue:













At the Lukishki prison where Begin was held from September 1940 to May 1941 and where he was sentenced as serving as an agent of "British imperialism":











And off towards the airport:





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