VILKAVISKIS
a small town in Southern Lithuania
Where the Jewish Community is no more
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The old Roman Catholic Cathedral
Town center around 1915
To-day this is the Vilkaviskis Regional Museum
PART 3
2009 04 28

What do you keep the memory Nuoširdžioji our group of four Lithuanian guide Rachel and her husband Joss gave another two wonderful trips. Before we joined vilkaviškietės Dvor Dolev (Adelson) daughter Mariana. 91-year-old mother living in the kibbutz for several kilometers from Tel Aviv. As our group nebesutelpa in one car, to me, as some suprantantį English, the transplanting of the Mariana car. And so the two came from Vilkaviškio offspring carries us through all of Israel. Mariana English language slowly, the words escort gestures. Susikalbame. Dvora Her mother was born in 1916 in New Vilnīši. Vilkaviskis lived since 1920. Attended school here, he loved drawing. In Vilkaviškio dvora immigrated in 1936, Israel has become artists. In memory of atkūrusi 1930-1936 year Vilkaviškio it by drawing a map of the city, adding the names of Lithuanian streets and noted the residential houses with their Jewish countrymen names Yiddish language. Map and drawings of their youthful days albumėlį dvora Dolev to the museum. Piešinėliuose record houses, Vilkaujos River, Vilkaviškio manor buildings, expressive faces of the townsfolk of the Jews.

In Jordan Mariana entertain me away sandwiches and coffee. Travel to Nazareth, the childhood town of Jesus. Folder of the places where Christ has launched the world's salvation activity, the Galilee lake showed the first miracle. Kano city buy the wine. After all, here is Christ turned water in wine. Jordan river doing a kind of rite of baptism (as a tourist attraction), Jordan pasisemiame water. Where Christ met Peter, Peter fotografuojam
ės to the cliffs, grožimės lake shore. Stand in the place where Christ said to his famous Sermon on the Mount. Listen to these words of the Holy Writing: "blessed lonesome, they would be comfort. Blessed alkstantys and thirsty truth: they will sate. Blessed gailestingieji they receive mercy. Blessed persecuted for justice, which is the kingdom of heaven "(Mt 5, 3-12). Walk in places where Christ is three fish pamaitino crowd. Abundant in Japanese, Korean, American tourists can see here exotica. We accompany the Jews - only their countrymen of Jesus Christ in attendance. Lithuanian Catholics - this is the place which the LORD out of childhood, from parents' stories, the memories communicate. My wife, through the Department of Vilkaviškio St. Reading the Holy Mass in writing excerpts, the holy places of the heart is a fire lit žvakeles, and I see her face concentration.


 In his stay in the days of the Nativity in Bethlehem, the Galilee consent pamaldži
ų a Polish Catholic groups. Their ecstatic religiosity falls into his eyes. "Only if it comes from the depth" - the scale of the monitoring of the Polish tourists to dive into the waters of the Jordan River. Album - Vilkaviškio History On journeys of Jesus išvaikščiotais paths will be another story. Now Joss escorted travel to the U.S. pakvietusios Zippo Rosenne holdings, the Museum of the Jewish diaspora. Zippo headed its department of photographs and documents. Giving presents from Vilkaviškio: a cup of our city emblem, brochures, and has the traditional black bread kepalėlį. Zippo mosteli hand and its employees have three great albums with Vilkaviškio city and its population of Jewish photographs. Instead, these unique album pages. Here is a picture, which is fixed, as president of A. Smetona to escort the Vilkaviškio streets. The other - the various festivals and organizations in the images of events, the townsfolk of a happy family portrait. Choose until the photos (the price of one - 2 euros), my companions walk in museums. This is - a modern building. The rooms we are not the usual stand with photographs, exhibits in closed cabinets. Seda strange visitor to the throne, and a convenient monitor images of the four sides of the screen.