2020 plan for the commemoration of the year of …

2020 PLAN FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF THE YEAR OF THE VILNA GAON AND OF THE HISTORY

OF THE JEWS OF LITHUANIA

2020 PLAN FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF THE YEAR OF THE VILNA GAON AND OF THE HISTORY OF THE JEWS OF LITHUANIA / 1

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Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Office of the Government, Ministry of Culture, Association of Local Authorities in Lithuania, Lithuanian Jewish (Litvak) Community

Quarter 1, 2020February 2020, April 2020, May 2020,12-18 October 2020

Quarter 1, 2020

To hold commemorations in Vilnius and Kaunas of the 120th anniversary of the birth of Chiune Sugihara

Ministry of Culture, Lithuanian Culture Institute, Lithuanian Jewish (Litvak) Community

Quarter 1, 202020-23February 2020

To hold a series of events: ‘Litvaks and Literature: Input of the Lithuanian Jews into the World Literature Heritage’ at Vilnius Book Fair

4. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department of National Minorities under the Government of the Republic of Lithuania,Secretariat of the International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania, public establishment House of National Communities, Lithuanian Jewish (Litvak) Community

Quarter 3, 2019 - Quarter 1, 2020

To run a tolerance campaign #VieningaLietuva (unified Lithuania)

To draft and circulate a letter to municipalities inviting them to hold events for the commemoration of the year of the Vilna Gaon and of the history of the Jews of Lithuania

COMMEMORATIONS AND CONFERENCES

CULTURAL, EDUCATIONAL AND INFORMATIONAL ACTIVITIES

5. Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum,Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Quarter 4, 2019 - Quarter 1, 202028 November 2019 – 1 March 2020

To hold an exhibition of works by Vilnius-born most renowned twentieth-century Brasil’s modernist Lasar Segall

QUARTER 1

THE YEAR OF THE VILNA GAON JEWISH HISTORY IN LITHUANIA


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Lithuanian Jewish (Litvak) Community,Vilnius Saulėtekio School Multifunctional Centre

Secretariat of the International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania

Quarters 1-2, 2020

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To hold an exhibition at the educational establishments of Vilnius and Vilnius district featuring photographs by photo artist Rimantas Dichavičius about the old Jewish cemetery in Olandų Street, Vilnius: ‘Monument to Monument’

Ministry of Education, Science and Sport, Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum,Lithuanian Jewish (Litvak) Community

Quarters 1-4, 2020To compile and release a series of articles in the e-publi-cation ‘Education News’ to commemorate the year of theVilna Gaon and the history of the Jews of Lithuania

9. Ministry of Education, Science and Sport, Ministry of Culture, Lithuanian Jewish (Litvak) Community

Quarters 1-4, 2020To provide school libraries with the ‘Diary of the Vilna Ghetto’ by Yitskhok Rudashevski.

To develop and implement a national project of child drawing exhibitions ‘Learning about Jewish Cultural Heritage’ in schools across Lithuania

10. Concert agency Lithuanian National Philharmonic Society

Quarters 1-4, 2020To hold grand piano and chamber music concert dedicated to Jascha Heifetz, Joseph Achron and George Gershwin

11. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lithuanian Jewish (Litvak) Community

Quarters 1-4, 2020To organise a series of focused events presenting Litvak culture in the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Federal Republic of Germany, South Africa, Israel, Republic of Poland, Russian Federation, French Republic, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Lithuania to the United Nations Office in Geneva, Permanent Delegation of the Republic of Lithuania to UNESCO in Paris

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Chapter III

Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum,Ministry of Culture, Office of the Government

Quarters 1-4, 2020To revise the investment project by the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum ‘Complex Reconstruction of Paneriai Memorial to Victims of Holocaust and all Victims of Nazism’ and to renovate the outdoor exhibition of the Memorial with modern means

16. Municipalities, Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania, Ministry of Culture, Lithuanian Jewish (Litvak) Community

Quarters 1-4, 2020To tidy up and take a regular care of the old Jewish cemeteries and mass grave sites and to place directional arrows as well as information boards or, where possible, information stands

COMMEMORATION ACTIVITIES



12. Lithuanian Jewish (Litvak) Community,Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Quarters 1-4, 2020To create an educational tourist trail ‘Heritage of Litvak Judaism, Philosophical Thought and Culture in the GDL’

13. Department of Cultural Heritage under the Ministry of Culture

Quarters 1-4, 2020In celebration of the European Day of Jewish Culture in Lithuania, to initiate and facilitate the development and implementation of educational and informational projects in municipalities on Jewish cultural heritage: ‘Jews in Lithuania: History, Culture and Heritage’

14. Jurbarkas District Municipality Quarter 3, 201919 July 2019

Build a Synagogue Square Memorial in memory of the Jewish community in Jurbarkas

Chapter IV PUBLICITY AND PUBLICATION ACTIVITIES

17. Ministry of Culture, Lithuanian Jewish (Litvak) Community

Quarter 4, 2019To create a logo of the year of the Vilna Gaon and of the history of the Jews of Lithuania

QUARTER 1


19. Secretariat of the International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania

Quarter 1, 2020To prepare questions for intellectual games and quizzes in Lithuanian media ‘What do you know about the history of Lithuanian Jews?’

20. Ministry of Foreign Affairs Quarter 4, 2019 - Quarter 4, 2020

In cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Israel, to run a joint information campaign on social networks dedicated to the commemoration of the year of the Vilna Gaon and of the Litvak cultural heritage

21. Lithuanian National Radio and Television

Quarters 1-4, 2020To disseminate information on the events for the commemoration of the year of the Vilna Gaon and of the history of the Jews of Lithuania on television and radio news programmes


Quarters 1-4, 2020To organise the participation of The Jerusalem Post and Haaretz in major events in Vilnius dedicated to the commemoration of the year of the Vilna Gaon and of the history of the Jews of Lithuania


Action (project) Implementation deadlineResponsible implementerChapter IV

18. Ministry of Culture, Lithuanian Jewish (Litvak) Community

Quarter 1, 2020To create a medal of the year of the Vilna Gaon and of the history of the Jews of Lithuania

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Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, Vilnius University,Lithuanian Institute of History,Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore

Quarters 2-3, 202021-22 April 2020

To hold an international academic conference: ‘Scholarship and Intellectuality among the Lithuanian Jews. 18th to 20th Century / Lietuvos žydų mokytumas ir intelektualumas. XVIII-XX a.’ and publish conference materials

Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum, Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, Lithuanian Central State Archives

Quarter 2, 2020To hold a permanent and movable exhibition ‘Books do not grow on trees (Z. Kalmanovich): Preservation and Transfer of Memory’



25. Lithuanian State Historical Archives Quarter 2, 2020June 2020

To hold a permanent and virtual exhibition to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the birth of the Vilna Gaon

26. Concert Agency Kauno Santaka Quarter 2, 2020June 2020

To develop and implement a project ‘Kaunas Musical Guide: Historical Jewish Routes’ (7 musical routes around Jewish places in Kaunas)


Quarter 2, 2020To hold a festival of theatre performances‘Opening the pages of Jewish literature’

28. Public Establishment Menų vartai Quarters 2-4, 2020To hold an international retrospective interdisciplinary art project that promotes joint projects and exchanges of Jewish artists living in Lithuania or having left it.

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Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum Quarter 2, 2020To work out an investment project ‘Renovation and Development of Jacques Lipchitz Memorial Museum in Druskininkai’ and to submit it to the Ministry of Culture

Bank of Lithuania Quarter 2, 2020To issue a commemorative coin to mark the 300th anniversary of the birth of the Vilna Gaon


PUBLICITY AND PUBLICATION ACTIVITIES

31. Ministry of Transport and Communications, AB Lietuvos pastas (Post)

Quarter 2, 202010 April 2020

To issue a postage stamp and a first-day envelope to mark the 300th anniversary of the birth of the Vilna Gaon

32. Ministry of Foreign Affairs Quarter 2, 2020To organise the première of ‘Mordechai Perlov – I Survived Stalin During WWII’ in Lithuania


Quarters 2-3, 2020To run a publicity campaign by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Israel in two or three cities: Vilnius, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem


Quarters 2-4, 2020To broadcast the documentary series ‘The Righteous of the World’

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Quarters 2-4, 2020To screen the documentaries: ‘The Paper Brigade’, ‘The Good Nazi’, ‘Our Jewish Musicians’, ‘Romas, Tomas and Joseph’, ‘Fania’s Vilnius’, ‘The Snowball Rolled South’ and ‘Litvaks. From Vilnius to Jerusalem’ and others




Quarters 2-4, 2020To run three-minute TV spots featuring facts of the history of Lithuanian Jews

QUARTER 2




Chapter I

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Chapter II

Lithuanian Jewish (Litvak) Community,Office of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, Ministry of Foreign Affairs,Ministry of Culture, Secretariat of the International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania,Department of National Minorities under the Government of the Republic of Lithuania

Quarter 3, 2020To hold a World Litvak Congress, which will also play host to Jewish Folklore and Culinary Heritage Day events

Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum,M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum

Quarter 3, 2020To hold an exhibition of works by Samuel Bak at the M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum



38. Ministry of Foreign Affairs Quarter 3, 2020To hold an event in New York to commemorate the year of the Vilna Gaon and of the history of the Jews of Lithuania

40. Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, Lithuanian State Historical Archives, Lithuanian Central State Archives, Lithuanian Art Museum,M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum,Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum

Quarter 3, 2020To hold an exhibition ‘Shenoth Eliyahu: Vilna Gaon’s influence on Jewish Culture in Lithuania’

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Association Lithuanian-German ForumMinistry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Culture, Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, Lithuanian Culture Institute

Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum,Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lithuanian Jewish (Litvak) Community

Quarter 3, 2020

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To hold an exhibition ‘YIVO in Vilnius: Beginning of the Legend’ in Frankfurt (Federal Republic of Germany)

Alytus Local Lore Museum Quarter 3, 2020To produce a movable outdoor exhibition about the Jews of Dzūkija region and their cultural heritage

44. Šiauliai Tourism Information Centre Quarter 3, 2020To compile and release a tourist publication on the history and culture of Jews in Šiauliai (printed and electronic versions)

To produce an exhibition in English ‘Whoever Saves a Life Saves the World’ and publish its catalogue

45. Public Establishment Motobaltija Quarter 3, 2020May 2020,22 August 2020

To organise a Mototourism Rally 2020 dedicated to the historical and cultural heritage of Lithuanian Jews

46. Ministry of Education, Science and Sport, Education Development Centre,Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum,Lithuanian Jewish (Litvak) Community

Quarter 3, 2020To produce a series of Teacher TV broadcasts to commemorate the year of the Vilna Gaon and the history of the Jews of Lithuania

46. Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Quarters 3-4, 2020To develop and implement an educational programme ‘Foundations of the Worldview of Lithuanian Jews’

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Ministry of Culture, Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania, City of Vilnius, Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum, Lithuanian Jewish (Litvak) Community

Quarter 3, 2020To hold a competition of an idea for a monument to the Righteous Among the Nations, the rescuers of Jews in Nazi occupied Lithuania

Lithuanian National Radio and Television

Quarter 3, 2020To broadcast radio documentary material dedicated to the history Lithuanian Jews



49. Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum,Lithuanian Jewish (Litvak) Community,City of Vilnius

Quarter 3, 2020To place two commemorative signs in Vilnius for the Paper Brigade

50. Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum,City of Vilnius

Quarter 3, 2020To place a commemorative plaque in memory of the Shenderov family of musicians on Vilniaus Street 17, Vilnius

QUARTER 3




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Lithuanian Culture Research Institute Quarter 4, 2020To hold an international academic conference: ‘Treasures of the Litvak Culture and Art: the Latest Studies’

Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum,Lithuanian Culture Research Institute

Quarter 4, 2020To hold an exhibition of works by Boris Schatz and documents from Boris Schatz home-museum in Jerusalem



54. Department of National Minorities under the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, Lithuanian Jewish (Litvak) Community

Quarter 4, 2020To produce a movable exhibition in Lithuanian ‘One of Seven Centuries. Lithuania. Lita. Lite’ dedicated to communities in Lithuania

55. Lithuanian Central State Archives,Lithuanian Special Archives

Quarter 4, 2020To produce a movable and virtual exhibition of Jewish military volunteers having participated in the fights for Independence

56. Lithuanian National Philharmonic Society

14 November 2020To hold a concert ‘In memoriam Anatoly Shenderov’ to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the birth of the composer


Quarter 4, 2020To compile and publish a methodical publication for schools ‘100 Things from the History of Lithuanian Jews’

58. Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum,Ministry of Foreign Affairs,Lithuanian Jewish (Litvak) Community

Quarter 4, 2020To exhibit the ‘White Crucifixion’ by Marc Chagall

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City of Vilnius Quarter 4, 2020To draw up and launch a plan of works for the perpetuation of Vilnius Great Synagogue and for the arrangement of the surrounding area, after having agreed it with the Lithuanian Jewish (Litvak) community

Secretariat of the International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania

2019-2020To compile and publish a book ‘History of the Holocaust in Lithuania’



60. City of Vilnius Quarter 4, 2020To work out project proposals for the arrangement of the old Jewish cemetery on Olandų Street and agree it with the Lithuanian Jewish (Litvak) community

61. Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum,Ministry of Culture

Quarter 4, 2020To work out a technical design for a major renovation of the structure on Žemaitijos Street 4 in Vilnius (to continue the works under the investment project ‘Memorial Museum of Holocaust and Vilnius Ghetto in Lithuania)

62. City of Vilnius, Lithuanian Jewish (Litvak) Community

Quarter 4, 2020To arrange and adjust for visiting the site of the eternal peace of the Vilna Gaon at the Jewish Cemetery on Sudervės Street

63. City of Vilnius, State-owned enterprise Turto bankas, Lithuanian Jewish (Litvak) Community

Quarter 4, 2021To arrange the site of the Old Jewish Cemetery at Šnipiškės in Vilnius, present the history of the Cemetery and exhibit tombstone fragments

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Lithuanian National Radio and Television

Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore Office of the Government

Quarter 4, 2020

Quarter 4, 2020

To air radio lecture on the Vilna Gaon and the history of Lithuanian Jews

Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum,Lithuanian Institute of History

Quarter 4, 2020To compile and publish a collective monograph on the history of the massacre in Paneriai and of the location itself (1944-2018)

68. Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Quarter 4, 2020To compile and print the publication ‘Reflections on a Broken Mirror. Judaica Collection at Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania’

To publish a collection of poems and the diary of a young litvak poet Matilda Olkinaitė in English

69. UAB Post Scriptum. Littera Quarter 4, 2020To compile and publish in Lithuanian and English ‘Passport Journal / Lithuanian Jews, the Litvaks’ featuring the most prominent Litvak personalities and Litvak heritage in Lithuania and in the world

QUARTER 4


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