Thursday, August 30, 2012

Kaunas, Lithuania

We took the train from Vilnius to Kaunas, home of the family of our great-great grandmother Lena Laser Blumenfeld.
The Kaunas synagogue - still functioning!

War memorial at the synagogue (Torah)

Vegetable hawker

One of the beggar-woman army

Vegetable hawker

Babushka

The flood meter

Dulcimer buskette and a layabout

Train station outbuilding

A military presence










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