We found it hard to believe that after hearing of the Vilna Gaon in our Jewish studies, that here we were at his grave! This truly is the place of our roots.
In this lake now rests a hat of Zatz, which was blown off his by a gust of wind. He wrote us after the trip that he considered it very symbolic because his father's brother Itzhak Zarnitsky drowned in the Nieman River, another body of water in Lithuania. Itzhak - our "Zatz" was named for his drowned uncle.
