In a few days, the 75th anniversary of the destruction of the Vilnius ghetto will be marked. How should Lithuania act toward monuments to nazi collaborators, who fought for Lithuanian freedom? Lithuania has recently appeared […]
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. […]
Jews, just as any nation are not monolithic. Jews in Lithuania have a history of some 700 years and many things have occurred during it, both good and bad and the repercussions of the Holocaust […]
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 President Reuven Rivlin has expressed his condolences to Jolanta Donskienė, the wife of Lithuania’s late philosopher Leonidas Donskis. […]
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.
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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.
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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.
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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 their descendants are being rejected. […]
Over €125,000 euros have been raised in a charity concert organized by the Lithuanian Jewish Community and the Order of Malta for non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust in Lithuania. […]
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. […]
A wooden synagogue from the 1930s which was recently discovered underneath another building near Kaunas will not be preserved, the Kauno Diena daily reports. […]
On Friday, the Lithuanian Jewish Community called for the publication of “general data” on about 2,000 people who, according to historical research, may have participated in the Holocaust during World War II. […]
Jews living in Lithuania never said Lithuanians were a nation of Jew-shooters and don’t plan on doing so, but Lithuania should acknowledge the topic of the Holocaust, Faina Kukliansky, the leader of the Lithuanian Jewish Community, said in a press release issued in the wake of heated discussions on the Holocaust. […]
Over the last year, the Lithuanian government began focusing more on preserving Jewish heritage and grave sites, according to Faina Kukliansky, the chair of the Jewish Community of Lithuania. […]
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