Tour to Latvia and Lithuania

• Afternoon flight from Tel Aviv to Riga.
• Introductory walking tour: Swedish Gate, Riga Cathedral, Cat House, House of the Blackheads, Great and Small Guilds, Alberta Street (Art Nouveau architecture).
• Overnight in Riga.

Welcome Dinner. 

• Visit memorials: burned synagogue site, Jewish school, Rumbula and Bikernieki massacre sites.
• Cross into Lithuania; tour the Frankel family estate in Šiauliai.
• Evening arrival in Kaunas.
• Overnight in Kaunas.

• City view and Old Town tour.
• Visit Zamenhof Street, Abraham Mapu memorial, synagogue and children’s Holocaust memorial.
• Afternoon: Slobodka neighborhood, famous yeshiva, ghetto streets.
• Visit sites related to Leah Goldberg and the Hebrew Gymnasium “Schwabe”.
• Overnight in Kaunas.

• Tour the Ninth Fort (WWII prison and execution site).
• Ethnographic museum in Rumsiskes.
• Wooden synagogue in Zezmariai.
• Arrival in Vilnius; view from Three Crosses Hill.
• Overnight in Vilnius.

• Cathedral Square, Presidential Palace, Vilnius University.
• Jewish cultural sites: Tarbut Gymnasium, Antokolsky’s birthplace, charity institutions.
• Afternoon: Old and new Jewish cemeteries, including graves of the Vilna Gaon and Graf Potocki.
• Visit the famous Ram printing house.
• Overnight in Vilnius.

• Visit Taharat HaKodesh Synagogue.
• Memorial visit to Ponar Forest.
• Excursion to Trakai Castle and Karaite Museum.
• Rudniki Forest: partisan camp site.
• Overnight in Vilnius.

• Explore “Jerusalem of Lithuania”: Ghetto Gate, Gaon Street, Jewish Street, Vilna Gaon’s home.
• Visit the Shulhof site and ghetto hospital.
• Walk through ghetto resistance sites and memorials.
• Evening transfer to airport; flight via Riga to Tel Aviv.