Lithuanian Jewish Community

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs advises Lithuanians to avoid non-essential travel to Israel after Hamas invaded the country from Gaza and killed hundreds of people.

The Jewish Community of Lithuania said on Thursday announced it was reopening its headquarters and Vilnius Synagogue.

Several hundred people rallied in Vilnius on Wednesday to protest against the city administration's decisions to remove commemorations to two officials who were allegedly involved in the Holocaust during World War Two.

The Kaunas Ghetto was burned in July 1944. Around 5000 people were transferred to concentration camps, and only a few hundred managed to escape.

On 5 July, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius conferred the Foreign Ministry’s award of honor – Lithuania’s Diplomacy Star – on Faina Kukliansky, Chair of the Jewish (Litvak) Community of Lithuania.

The Good Will Foundation, the administrator of a public fund for compensation for Jewish communal property seized by the Nazis and the Soviets, is taking over state-owned premises in downtown Vilnius and is considering acquiring more buildings in various Lithuanian cities and towns in the future.

A commemoration of the victims of the Holocaust was held at the Paneriai Memorial in Vilnius on Thursday.

Several dozen supporters of Palestine staged a demonstration outside the Lithuanian government's building in central Vilnius on Thursday ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit.

A new regional Jewish community is being founded in Vilnius, to be led by long-standing president of Lithuanian sports club Makabi, Semionas Finkelsteinas.

Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that Lithuania does not need to review its attitude toward Lithuanians' role during the Holocaust.

The Lithuanian Jewish Community (LJC) has dissociated itself from publicly made allegations that Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas, a Lithuanian anti-Soviet resistance commander, was possibly involved in Holocaust crimes.

Local authorities in the northern Lithuanian district of Radviliškis on Monday welcomed plans to build a privately-financed state-of-the-art Jewish museum in Šeduva that will be dedicated to the life of Jews in small Lithuanian towns in the pre-Holocaust era.

Acclaimed Canadian filmmaker Irene Angelico confronts her doubts and visits Vilnius, the city where her parents lived during the Second World War. They knew it as Vilna.

Israeli media has recently reported on parties being held at a WWII Jewish killing site in Kaunas. However, the Lithuanian Jewish Community says the publication is merely recycling an old story.

The Jewish community wants Vilnius municipality co-found a Jewish kindergarten in the Lithuanian capital. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

A team of experts from the United Kingdom, Canada, Israel and Lithuania is starting to study the remains of the Great Synagogue of Vilnius and other ritual constructions buried under the ground. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

Lithuanian society considers deportation a tragedy of the Lithuanian nation even though a few thousand Jews were also deported, Faina Kukliansky, the leader of the Jewish Community of Lithuania, said on the 75-year anniversary of the start of mass deportations. To read this article, try a €5.99 mont...

Amid complaints from Lithuanian Jewish Community representatives and Litvaks living in Israel and South Africa, at least two Lithuanian parliamentary committees are planning to look into the reasons why citizenship restoration applications from Jews who left the country in the interwar period and th...