Kaunas – Choral Synagogue
Dating from 1871, this radically designed synagogue, once one of over 35 synagogues and Jewish prayer houses in the city of Kaunas, claims to have one of the most beautiful altars in the entire Jewish world. A memorial to the estimated 50,000 Lithuanian Jewish children killed during the Holocaust can be found at the rear of the building, complete with 37 stone tablets showing in which towns and cities they lost their lives and just how many of them died in each one. The crumbling remains of two other synagogues can be seen in Old Town at Zamenhofo 7 and 9.