World War Two

Emmy-nominated director Chris Cassel first shot in Lithuania nine years ago. Now the director is back to film a docudrama about Pope Pius XII’s role in World War Two.

Lithuania's Ambassador to Russia Remigijus Motuzas paid tribute to the victims of World War Two in Moscow on Sunday by visiting the Eternal Flame Memorial at the walls of the Kremlin.

Several thousand people gathered in the Antakalnio Cemetery in Vilnius on Monday to mark the end of World War Two.

Vilnius police were alerted twice on Monday about public displays of Soviet Union symbols, which is a crime in Lithuania.

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.

No diplomatic representative from Lithuania will attend this year's May 9 Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius has said on Wednesday.

"There is always someone in a family who pushes against silence," says Rita Gabis, in whose new book Lithuania’s Holocaust skeletons come to light, exploring the 220,000 Lithuanian Jews killed during WWII — and the people who let it happen.

A grandmother from Klaipėda, Lithuania has received an unexpected letter from a world leader congratulating her on the end of World War II.

The Lithuanian, Belarusian and Jewish communities in Poland have been incensed by a state funeral accorded to a partisan leader linked to mass murders during World War Two.

Grave robbers dug up two burial sites in Lithuania in search of military memorabilia from the two world wars, Lzinios.lt reports.

An investigation will look into Jewish cultural artefacts that were seized by Nazis in Lithuania during World War Two.

People like anniversaries, and 75 years since the establishment of Kaunas Ghetto is a good opportunity to remember the history of Lithuania's Litvaks, says a British expat offering an original way of doing it.

Members of Lithuania's Roma community who perished during World War Two should have a day of commemoration, say public organizations. They add that the group has been unduly erased from Lithuania's historic memory.

A new list of former KGB agents to be released will contain the names of about ten well-known Lithuanian public figures, according to the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre, which is investigating the archives of the Soviet security police.

Lithuania's Prosecutor General's Office said Thursday it would investigate a list of about 2,000 Lithuanians who may have taken part in the killing of Jews in Lithuania during World War Two. The list was compiled by the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre in Lithuania.

Businessman Valdas Balčiūnas has been named the 2015 Person of Tolerance in Lithuania, the public organization “Sugihara Foundation - Diplomats for Life” told BNS on Saturday.

A development plan for the Oldtown of Vilnius, currently being drafted by the Culture Heritage Department, has raised concerns of heritage preservationists. The plan envisages "reconstruction of historical zones" that were destroyed during World War Two, which critics say will open the door for new ...

The Lithuanian Jewish community would like to see a monument built in Vilnius to people who were saving Jews during World War Two.

Hundreds of ordinary Lithuanians who saved Jews are honoured in Israel

Author Rūta Vanagaitė recently presented a book, "Our Own", about the Holocaust in Lithuania. Although historians have been researching the topic for years, the Lithuanian society has yet to realize and acknowledge the part their compatriots, ordinary Lithuanians, played in the mass killings of Jews...