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ALPtours: Japan tour: October 2010 - the Sugihara connection

By avivapreston, June 14, 2010

Did you or your parents or someone you know escape from Lithuania via Japan having received a transit visa from the Japanese Consul in Kovno - Chiune (Sempo) Sugihara.?

Were any of your relations boys of the Mir Yeshiva who ended up in Shanghai??

Have you or they ever returned to Japan?

This October I will be taking a kosher tour to Japan and we will be visiting Kobe and spending a Shabbat there. We will also visit the village of Yoatsu which was Sugihara’s home town and where there is a memorial to him.

Might this be of interest?

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ALP tours - Update on Florentine Interlude-

By avivapreston, April 1, 2009

A Florentine Interlude

This Tuscan tour has now been scheduled for the 16th – 20th July.

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the ALP tours Florentine Interlude - a 5 day mini break

By avivapreston, February 25, 2009

A Florentine Interlude

How did Jews live in Florence at the time Michelangelo was sculpting ‘David’?

Hidden in the city that the world knows and loves is another Florence: a Jewish Florence!

What was life like for Jews in Florence when Botticelli painted the “Primavera”? Or in Galileo’s time? What is life like for Jews in Florence today?

My wonderful guide is a Florentine architecture historian. She knows the city inside out and stone by stone and is a foremost expert on the Jewish history of Florence and Tuscany.

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The ALP tours January Newsletter

By avivapreston, February 8, 2009

Newsletter

Dear all

2009 has begun on a ‘low’ - Gaza, the economy, the weather here in the UK- but hey ho, the days are lengthening, the sun is shining (sometimes) and in my inbox I have a lot of enquiries about what I am planning for 2009.

If I have sufficient interest I will offer Cambodia/Vietnam/WestChina and Tibet in November.

Cambodia will be first, so that if you came on the Thailand and Cambodia tour you may wish to join in Vietnam and if you think the tour will be too long you can skip Tibet….

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