Genocide and Resistance Research Centre
Lithuanian anti-Soviet resistance fighter stripped of state decoration due to involvement in Holocaust
After President Dalia Grybauskaitė changed a 2000 decree on state awards for Lithuania's post-war anti- Soviet resistance fighters, one partisan,...
Opinion: Information offensives aim at pillars of Lithuanian statehood
City authorities recently removed four groups of Soviet-era statues from the Green Bridge in central Vilnius. Columnist Ramūnas Bogdanas argues that it was...
Former Soviet security officer sent to jail over 1956 operation on guerrilla leader
A Kaunas court on Thursday found former Soviet security officer Stanislovas Drelingas guilty of genocide and sentenced him to five years in prison for...
Lithuania grants state pensions to nearly 100 Jew rescuers
Second-degree state pensions were granted to 98 Lithuanian residents who rescued Jews during the Holocaust , the Social Security and Labour Ministry said.
80 Lithuanians who saved Jews during WWII granted status of freedom fighters
Rescuers of Jews were awarded with certificates testifying their legal status as participants of freedom fights. The ceremony on Thursday included words of...
Parengė Gediminas Inčiūra
