New Exhibition 'Lost but Remembered: Traces of Jewish Legacy in Lithuania'
- Chabad Islington
- Nov 24
- 2 min read
Updated: 6 minutes ago
Ein Sof Gallery unveils a new exhibition titled 'Lost but Remembered: Traces of Jewish Legacy in Lithuania', featuring photographs by Daniel and Nathan Pesin.
08th Jan 2026 – 29th Jan 2026
Ein Sof Gallery
1-3 Elliott’s Place
London, N1 8HX
This exhibition focuses on loss and remembrance in relation to Lithuania’s Jewish community. The Nazis and their local collaborators murdered about 90% of Lithuania’s Jews during the Holocaust. Lithuania’s Jewish population peaked at roughly 250,000, in 1941; today, the community is estimated to number 5,000 at most.
Daniel and Nathan Pesin reveal how the memory of Lithuania’s Jews endures today. They take us into witness-bearing forests and town archives, yeshivas-turned-museums and seemingly forgotten rural graveyards. Plaques in the street memorialise former Jewish businesses, and road signs denote mass killing sites. It is unusual for former synagogue buildings to remain in their intended use; while some still have a connection to their Jewish past, many have become concert halls or cafés, if they stand at all.
Complimenting the photographs is a screening of award-winning filmmaker Roberta Grossman’s Extinguished Lives (14 minutes), examining the story of a young woman during the “Holocaust by bullets”. This is presented together with the recently-opened Lost Shtetl Museum in Šeduva, Lithuania.
Together, these visual experiences urge us as viewers not only to remember this once-vibrant community, but also to consider the most meaningful ways to preserve memory in the twenty-first century.
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