Thanks to
Esfir Bramson
Judif Rozina
Rolandas Gustaitis
Rocha Kostanian
Ilona Murauskaitė
Galina Žirikova
Paulius Račiūnas
Authors of historical content
Neringa Latvytė-Gustaitienė, VVGŽM
Victoria Sideraitė Alon, VVGŽM
Rachel Bracha, World ORT Archive
Exhibition and catalogue design
Victoria Sideraitė Alon
© Jūratė Juozėnienė, 2013
Translators
Zuzana Šiušaitė
Diana Guogienė
Editors
Audra Kairienė
Rachel Bracha
Printing
UAB BALTOprint
Exhibition organisers
World ORT
Partners and sponsors
World ORT
Lithuanian Central State Archives
Business law firm in the Baltics
Vilna Gaon State
Jewish Museum
This exhibition is devoted to ORT Lithuania, the Jewish
organisation that was active in Lithuania between the two
world wars. The documents and photographs that are
published here for the first time show that ORT Lithuania (the
Society for Promotion of Skilled Trades and Agricultural
Labour among Jews in Lithuania), established in the time of
the rule of Tsarist Russia, later continued its activities in
independent Lithuania as well as in the southeastern part of
Lithuania occupied by Poland. The exhibition illustrates the
day-to-day activities of the trades courses and schools set up
by ORT all over Lithuania; the vocational schools in Kaunas
and Vilnius; the lives of teachers and students; and features
reminiscences of fellow students and teachers. The
importance of trades in the ghettos during the Holocaust, as
well as the activities of World ORT nowadays all over the
world and Lithuania, are also highlighted.
Leon Bramson
Establishment of ORT in Lithuania
ORT in Kaunas
In the Provinces
ORT in Vilnius
During WWII
This exhibition is a collaborative project between World ORT and the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum in Lithuania. The exhibition
was held at the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum between September 2013 and January 2014 and will later tour around Lithuania.
Introduction to World ORT
ORT In Lithuania Today
ORT in Lithuanian Archives