12 октября Charles de Gunzburg with his wife, the Horace de Gunzburg ORT founder descendant, visited Saint Petersburg.

For the guests the ORT-Saint Petersburg Centre organized the City tour of the Saint Petersburg Jewish historic sites especially devoted to the Gunzburg family history pages: Gunzburg couple visited the Big Choral Synagogue, the Horace de Gunzburg House on Konogvardeysky Boulevard, House on Galernay Street, which was the first ORT building. There were made memorable photos.
In the ORT-Saint Petersburg Avi Ganon, ORT-Russia Director, told to the guests about ORT activities in Russia, Marina Sorokina, the Centre Director, presented ORT-Gunzburg Centre projects.
Mr. Gunzburg with great interest looked the ORT history exhibition, and Gunzburg family exhibition in the ORT-Saint Petersburg Centre.
There was led the School # 550 ("ORT-Gunzburg" project) excursion for the guests.
Avi Ganon and M. Sorokina presented the guests with the "Saint Petersburg Jewish Community. Three Centuries of History" computer album, "Jewish World in Postcards" CD-ROM, ORT-Gunzburg Centre and Gunzburg Family History booklets.

       
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