Righteous Among the Nations

До 1 января 2022 года израильский Национальный институт памяти мучеников и героев Катастрофы европейского еврейства (Яд Вашем) присвоил 924 гражданам Литвы почетное звание Праведников народов мира Righteous Among the Nations Lithuania 2022). Признанные получают именную медаль и Почетную грамоту, а и...

В 2005 году Генеральная Ассамблея ООН провозгласила 27 января, день освобождения Освенцима, Международным днем памяти жертв Холокоста. В Литве День геноцида литовских евреев отмечается также 23 сентября — в день, когда в 1943 году началась депортация евреев из ликвидированного Вильнюсского гетто.

Lithuanian families who hid Jews during the Nazi occupation were honored as Righteous Among the Nations in Lithuania's second-largest city of Kaunas on Thursday at a conference dedicated to Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust during World War Two.

The genocide of the Jewish people is a scar on Lithuania and the whole humanity's face, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius said during an event held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday to mark the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

A monument to Jew savers is planned to be built in Vilnius over the next couple of years.

Avner Shalev, chairman of the Jerusalem-based Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, says he would like information for the memorial's visitors, and also other resources, to be available in the Lithuanian language as well.

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

President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Wednesday thanked King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands for his country's support to Lithuania in the areas of security and energy.

Lithuania will support projects and produce documentaries to introduce to the world the Righteous Among the Nations from Lithuania, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says, adding that she discussed such possibilities with the German ambassador to Lithuania.

Vilnius and Panevėžys will Friday pay tribute to the memory of victims of the Holocaust, with events for the International Holocaust Remembrance Day held in other cities of Lithuania.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Wednesday presented 43 Lithuanians who rescued Jews during World War Two with Life Saving Crosses.

Yuli-Yoel Edelstein, the speaker of the Knesset, has honored the family of Ignacy and Katarzyna Bujel, who saved the life of a young Jewish woman during World War Two, at a ceremony in Vilnius, the Israeli embassy to Lithuania said.

The presidents of Lithuania and Israel on Sunday underlined the importance of preserving the heritage of Lithuanian Jews and of expanding business ties as they marked 25 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

Several hundred applications for Lithuanian citizenship have already been approved since the country amended the law last June to ease the rules for descendants of Jews who left Lithuania in the interwar period to apply for a Lithuanian passport.

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.

After an amendment to the Citizenship Law took effect in Lithuania in July, Litvaks, i.e. Jews of Lithuanian origin, living in Israel and the Republic of South Africa are again submitting applications for restoration of their Lithuanian citizenship, Lietuvos Žinios daily said on Wednesday.

The Lithuanian parliament (Seimas) on Thursday passed amendments to the Law on Citizenship, which will enable Litvaks, i.e. Jews of Lithuanian origin, and their descendants who left the country in the interwar period, to restore their citizenship rights. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly sub...

The Lithuanian Jewish community criticized Lithuania's migration officials for refusing citizenship to Litvaks, Jews of Lithuanian descent, who left the country in the interwar period.