Holocaust

On 7 October, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Mantvydas Bekešius attended events marking the 75th anniversary of Visas for Life, which were organised by the Embassy of Japan in Lithuania, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.

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.

Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė and Government Chancellor Alminas Mačiulis on Tuesday paid tribute to victims of the Jewish genocide at the Paneriai Memorial in Vilnius.

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.

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...

Events to mark the 90th anniversary of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the National Memorial Day for the Genocide Victims of the Lithuanian Jews are starting in Lithuania on Thursday, the Jewish Community of Lithuania said.

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...

Lithuania's Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius paid tribute to the victims of the Holocaust in the Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem on Tuesday.

Lithuania's second-largest city Kaunas will Friday pay tribute to the memory of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara who issued visas to rescue thousands of Jews during World War Two.

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...

Members of the Committee for the Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries in Europe are to come to Lithuania and visit the mass grave in Lithuania's northern city of Šiauliai, recently discovered during road construction work, the head of the Jewish Community of Lithuania said on Tuesday.

The authorities in Lithuania's northern city of Šiauliai have decided against excavating remains from a recently discovered World War Two mass burial site due to concerns from the Jewish community.

Human remains from a mass burial site dating back to WWII, recently discovered in Lithuania's northern city of Šiauliai during road construction works, will be excavated, a commission at the local municipality decided at its Monday meeting.

Digitalization of the unique archives about lives of Jews in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust accumulated by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in Vilnius before World War II should start in New York in the coming months.

On Sunday evening, the Lithuanian Foreign Minister, Linas Linkevičius, awarded in Los Angeles the diplomatic start to Dr. Richard Maullin.

More than two years of work on the restoration and preservation of Jewish heritage in Šeduva were marked in a private ceremony at the town’s recently restored Jewish cemetery (Žvejų gatvė). More than 400 tombstones have been identified and more than 1,300 have been either painstakingly restored or p...