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Baltic-American league launches campaign for permanent NATO garrison in Baltics

The Baltic American Freedom League (BAFL), an organisation in California devoted to supporting the Baltic states, has started an initiative to have the US persuade NATO to permanently station troops in the Baltics. […]

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A Lithuanian designed the first USD one cent coin

It appears that the designer of the first USD one cent was a Lithuanian Jew Viktoras Baranauskas who was born in 1871 in Šiauliai. […]

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Hollywood star Sean Penn’s grandfather came from which town in Lithuania?

The famous US actor Sean Penn, two-time Oscar winner, appears to have Lithuanian roots with his Litvak (Lithuanian Jewish) grandfather born in Lithuania in 1879. […]

Author Rita Gabis was born to a Lithuanian Catholic mother, and a Jewish father. (Photo Rina Castelnuovo, The Times of Israel)
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The realization your grandfather may have murdered thousands of Jews

“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. […]