Holocaust Museum

Round the corner from the Genocide museum but not housed in a grand building on the boulevard but instead very well hidden with tiny signs and about 50 metres away from the main road is a small building that houses for museum dedicated to the Jews of Lithuania and mainly to the Holocaust. As we entered a lady warned us they were soon closing so didn't charge. Twenty minutes was in fact plenty of time to look through the rooms because, after Riga, I didn't need to dwell on more horror. Although of course Lithuania had its own terror with 100,000 Jews shot in a forest just 10km from here. One exhibit had the Nazi statistics of how many were shot each day. When you see individual days listing something like 400 Jews, 400 Jewesses and 600 children it adds yet another dimension to the atrocities. We bought a few postcards and left as they closed. It was a very well presented exhibit and did well to point out that the Jews of Lithuania were a thriving world renowned community. It was just a shame it was so well hidden.