- A project called “Don’t Turn Away from Yourself”,
which was being carried out by Museum employees for a
while, is drawing to an end. May 31, 2004 in Anyksciai
Synagogue, which had served as a bakery during the
Soviet period, there was opened a historic exposition
Jews of Anyksciai:
History and Nowadays by Asta
Razanskienė. While carrying out the project, Museum
employees had compiled a lot of valuable material on
Jews of Anyksciai. There are pictures on life of Jews
of Anyksciai, Troskunai and Kavarskas taken from the
archives of our Museum and Vilnius Jewish Museum of
Gaon exhibited in the cellar of the Synagogue together
with a shoe-sewing machine, a table, a pair of scales
and various utensils once bought from Jewish shops
which have survived up to the present time due to some
Anyksciai people.
- After the exposition was introduced, there was a
performance on the Jewish genocide called A Crow
Trusts No Tears given to the audience of Anyksciai
(director Erikas Druskinas).
- The Synagogue’s exposition is also attended by
students of Anyksciai schools who are introduced to
history lessons on the subject.
- The project has been a success as the Synagogue of
Anyksciai came to a new life after 64 years, thanks to
its present owner Valdas Gindrenas who established a
new cultural space with its own spirit and history.
- On June 14 - the Day of Mourning and Hope - at the
Narrow Gauge Railway Museum the exposition of
deportation has been opened. A lot of pictures of
deportation are being exposed at the wagon in which
Anyksciai inhabitants were deported. The dumb show
theatre took part in the action Oh, that dusty
train. The deportees sang songs, saw a film about
the days in exile. Little candles were burning on the
rails.
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