Parliament Speaker Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen on Thursday began a working visit to Japan, where in Tokyo she met with women leaders. The meeting marked the first anniversary of strategic partnership announced between Japan and Lithuania.
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MP Remigijus Žemaitaitis continues to share anti-Jewish statements despite previous outrage from international community and has accused Jews of carrying out a ‘holocaust of Lithuanians’.
A coin bearing the image of the Vilna Gaon has been presented to Israeli President Reuven Riblin on behalf of Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda.
Lietuvos Pastas (Lithuanian Post) is issuing a special stamp to mark the 300th birth anniversary of the Vilna (Vilnius) Gaon.
Quarters comprising of several streets that were designed along religious, ethnic or professional lines were a regular way of life in European cities during the Middle Ages. Thus the settling of Jews, who employed the use of a section of the city that was delegated to them by law did not go counter ...
Effective German cooperation with the Lithuanians became a death trap for the Jews of Lithuania. In Lithuania it was patriots – ethnic nationalists - who killed the Jews in the hopes of creating a strong ethnic state without Jews, Russians and Poles. This is what eminent German historian Dr. Christo...
Events marking the International Holocaust Remembrance Day are getting underway in Lithuania on Thursday.
Israel's Ambassador to Lithuania Amir Maimon will Friday award the Yad Vashem medal and honors of Righteous Among the Nations to the Blažaičiai family, which risked their lives during World War II to rescue Jews from Nazi genocide.
President Dalia Grybauskaitė yesterday awarded the Life Saving Cross to forty-six Lithuanian citizens who risked danger to save Jews from probable death in Nazi-occupied Lithuania during World War II. Of the forty-six, only two were still alive to receive the award in person.
Vilnius has been suggested to establish the World Litvak Museum and restore a Jewish research institute, as well as pay tribute to the memory of Jews who contributed to the restoration of Lithuania's statehood in the government building.
