History

In an interview with the Lithuania Tribune, Egidijus Meilūnas, Lithuania's Ambassador in Tokyo, says people in Japan are starting to discover the Baltic country for its culture, tourism and investment opportunities.

During World War Two, Nazi Germany's submarines would regularly attack Allied forces. In response, the Allies formed special brigades to monitor German submarines. One of these brigades included a serviceman named Zenonas Lukošius, a Lithuanian expatriate. He has become a hero of WWII.

A group of Lithuanian politicians and activists have proposed that the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and its subsidiary in Lithuania - the Communist Party of Lithuania (LKP) - be recognized "a criminal organisation, organiser and executor of the genocide of the Lithuanian people, respon...

The Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum presents the exhibit, Holocaust by Bullets, Yahad - In Unum - 10 Years of Investigations, from October 1 to November 22, 2015.

On 24 September, representatives of the British, Jewish and Lithuanian communities in the United Kingdom as well as members of parliament and foreign diplomats residing in London gathered at the Embassy to commemorate the victims of the Shoah in Lithuania, the Embassy reports.

Over 100 schools and other educational institutions in Lithuania will on Wednesday take part in the civil initiative Memory Road to commemorate the large Jewish communities annihilated during the Holocaust.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Tuesday awarded 47 people with Life Saving Crosses for saving Jews from the Nazis during World War Two. The majority of them were awarded posthumously.

After President Dalia Grybauskaitė changed a 2000 decree on state awards for Lithuania's post-war anti-Soviet resistance fighters, one partisan, Pranas Končius-Adomas, was stripped of the Order of the Cross of Vytis, a decoration conferred on people who defended Lithuania's freedom and independence.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė will on Tuesday, the eve of the National Memorial Day for the Genocide Victims of the Lithuanian Jews, award 47 people who saved Jewish people from the Nazis during World War Two.

During a joint meeting between the Latvian and Lithuanian governments on 19 September, the two sides agreed to cooperate in preparations for both the Latvian and Lithuanian 100th anniversary celebrations.

The names of Holocaust victims will be read publicly in several Lithuanian cities and towns on Tuesday, September 22, on the eve of the Lithuanian Holocaust Remembrance Day. The Names initiative is being held in Vilnius for the fifth time now and this will be the first time when lists of Vilnius ghe...

Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius on Friday attended an informal discussion at the Sugihara House in Kaunas, Lithuania's second-largest city, on educational projects, introducing Chiune Sugihara’s achievements, prospects for cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, th...

Between the two world wars, Lithuania was an enthusiastic new nation state caught in a precarious international situation. Trapped between two expansionist powers, Germany and the Soviet Union, Lithuania tried to strengthen its security, but the main handicap was its feud with Poland over Vilnius. O...

Artėjantis 28-asis šiuolaikinio džiazo festivalis „Vilnius Jazz“ nudžiugins gerbėjus ne vienos pasaulinės žvaigždės improvizacijomis. Tačiau turbūt labiausiai Vilniuje laukiama 64 metų JAV gitaristo Billo Frisello. Jis atvyks su kvartetu „858“, kritikų vadinamu "viena tobuliausių" šio virtuozo grupi...

The Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office is handing to court the case of attempted coup of January 13, 1991, which is the most significant and the largest case in the history of Lithuania's law-enforcement, the office said.

Establishing an international institution for investigating Communist crimes would be a rather symbolic act, but it will probably would not lead to prosecution of those behind the Communist repressions, says Professor Justinas Žilinskas of the Lithuanian Mykolas Romeris University's Department of In...

Robertas Povilaitis who lost his father during the Soviet aggression in Vilnius on January 13, 1991, has turned to the Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office, calling for a more active investigation of the liability of the Soviet Union's then leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

City authorities recently removed four groups of Soviet-era statues from the Green Bridge in central Vilnius. Columnist Ramūnas Bogdanas argues that it was a move in the information war that Russia has launched against the West, including Lithuania. The retaliation that followed targeted crucial mom...

Judge Pranas Šimkus in the northern Lithuanian city of Panevėžys has withdrawn from hearing the case of Jonas Gailiūnas, 87, a former Soviet secret service agent who is standing trial for the deportation of Lithuanian people during the Soviet times.

Friday marks 24 years since tragic events at the Lithuanian checkpoint of Medininkai when seven Lithuanian officials were gunned down at work.