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.
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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...
Before drafting a new program for preserving identity of ethnic minorities, the Lithuanian Culture Ministry plans to launch a survey of their situation.
Municipal authorities of the district of Kaišiadorys intend to renovate the wooden Jewish synagogue in Žiežmariai, central Lithuania.
Renovation works of the synagogue on Gėlių Street in Vilnius has been started, the Department of Cultural Heritage said on Tuesday.
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.
During the celebrations of Šeduva Days on 27 June, Šeduva Jewish Memorial Fund made a significant donation to the local community in the form of a new fully equipped 4x4 Ford Transit ambulance car which was delivered to the local ambulance station.
The massacre of Jews at the Lietūkis garage 74 years ago was one of the most brutal not only in Lithuania but also Europe, Gercas Zakas, the leader of the Jewish community in Lithuania's second-largest city of Kaunas, said during a commemoration ceremony on Friday.
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.
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...
With a thrust from the eurozone, affordable air-fares on the route Vilnius-Tel Aviv and just generally better Israeli-Lithuanian relations, tourist flows between the two countries have peaked lately.
Giedrius Sakalauskas, a resident of Vilnius, was taking a walk with his son on Sunday when he made a disturbing discovery. An electric substation on Olandų Street that seemed to be built out of Jewish tombstones.
Juliana Zarchi, the daughter of a German mother and a Jewish father, who survived Nazi and Soviet repressions in Lithuania, says her fears are rekindled again as she sees re-emerging fascination with cruelty, despite horrible lessons of the twentieth century.
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Friday paid tribute to victims of WWII at Paneriai Memorial, stressing the need to preserve peace today.
Representatives of the Lithuanian government and the Lithuanian Jewish Community on Thursday agreed on an action plan to preserve Jewish architectural heritage and cemeteries in Lithuania as well as raise awareness about Jewish history.
This coming May, 800 delegates from over 51 countries will travel to Jerusalem not to enjoy the sunny Israeli weather but rather to discuss the prolonged eclipse that has clouded the streets of Europe in growing intensity in recent times.
Vilijampolė, Kaunas, winter. The project "Being a Jew". A group of thirty teachers led by a Jewish guide are standing in the former Kaunas ghetto. Houses, garages, storage spaces, wood piles where, during the war, thousands of Jews were herded like animals by the Nazis, where Jewish children played,...
Tomas Venclova, a prominent Lithuanian author, poet, translator and professor of literature at Yale University, delivered the following remarks at a conference on Holocaust education held at Vilnius City Hall on April 17, 2015, the final event in the Being a Jew project.
A conference on Holocaust education was held at Vilnius city hall on 17 April. The conference was the final event in the "Being a Jew" project's series of events this year marking Holocaust Remembrance Day.