The Tolerance Centre of the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum, together with other institutions, this year will celebrate International Tolerance Day, which was included on the UNESCO list of international days of commemoration in 1995 (16 November). The other institutions that will take part in the commemorative events are the Embassy of Poland in Vilnius, Migration Board of Vilnius County Police Headquarters, and the Polish Institute in Vilnius.
The exhibition“Jan Karski. Man of Freedom” will be opened on the 13th of November, 2014, at 5.00 p.m. in the Tolerance Center (Naugarduko Str. 10/2, Vilnius). Zygmunt Stępiński, deputy director of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews (POLIN), and Lena Dąbkowska-Cichocka, POLIN representative on the strategic development questions, will take part in the opening ceremony. The finalists of Citizen of the Republic of Lithuania, a competition for school students attending comprehensive schools in Vilnius district will also be awarded during this event. After the official part, we invite you to the concert of the Reszów Klezmer Band as a celebration of tolerance.
Please be so kind and print out the attached invitation before coming to our event.
