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The Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum Holocaust Exhibit, housed in a traditional wooden green house on Pamėnkalnio gatvė, commemorated the 70th anniversary of the liquidation of the Kaunas ghetto on 30 September. The commemoration was scheduled to coincide with the centennial of the birth of the museum...
The New York-based YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and Lithuanian institutions plan to digitalize and merge online pre-war archives on both sides of the Atlantic about the life of Eastern European Jews.
As the Seimas of Lithuania on Tuesday held a commemorative sitting to mark the 70th anniversary of the liquidation of the Kaunas and Šiauliai Ghettos, Tobijas Jefetas, chairman of the Lithuanian union of former ghetto and concentration camp prisoners, shared his memories as one of very few Jewish ch...
A series of events to start in Lithuania on Monday, marking the National Memorial Day for the Genocide Victims of the Lithuanian Jews.
On 18th September 2014, 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 Holocaust in Lithuania.
On the National Memorial Day for the Genocide of the Jews, President Dalia Grybauskaitė has awarded Life Saving Crosses to those who, despite mortal danger to their lives and their families' lives, rescued Jews during World War II from the Nazis.
Nobuki Sugihara, a son of famous Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara who saved thousands of Jews from the Nazis during World War Two, is coming to Vilnius on Thursday.
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė met Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in Vilnius on Thursday and emphasized Lithuania's interest of boosting exports of food products to the country.
Rūta Vanagaitė’s project “The Paneriai Lullaby”, which lets you interact with Jewish culture for a day, is one of the most successful projects financed by the European Commission (EC).
Monikos Baltrušaitytės pasisakymas apie Žaliojo tilto chebrą – keturias sovietinio socializmo laikų statulas – turbūt daug kam pasirodė kaip universaliai priimtina, pilietiška, logiška pozicija. Komentarai krykštauja pavymui: lauk visą sovietinį šlamštą, jų vietoje pasistatykime partizanus šlovinanč...
Over 70 people who saved Jews during World War Two have applied to be granted the status of freedom fighters in Lithuania. They became eligible to such a status after new amendments came into force a month and a half ago.
Alexander Dyukov, a Russian citizen who was not allowed to enter Lithuania earlier this week, is a representative of the Russian special services, using his publications to justify crimes of the Stalinist regime, according to historian and Lithuanian MP Arvydas Anušauskas.
Recent research carried out by the Anti-Defamation League shows that 36 percent of Lithuanian adults hold anti-Semitic views. The results are worse than in Latvia or Estonia. Chairwoman of the Lithuanian Jewish community Faina Kukliansky claims she was very surprised by these results.
The Global Anti-Semitism Index has revealed that 36 percent of adults in Lithuania hold anti-Semitic views. According to the survey, four out of 11 stereotypes about Jews covered by the index can be found in Lithuania.
