Genocide and Resistance Research Centre

  • Society

Lithuanian prosecutors start to investigate alleged Holocaust perpetrators on list

Lithuania's Prosecutor General's Office said Thursday it would investigate a list of about 2,000 Lithuanians who may have taken part…

9 years ago
  • Politics

Former Lithuanian interior minister cleared in genocide case of last Lithuanian partisan

On Thursday, Lithuania's Supreme Court issued a final ruling acquitting former Lithuanian Interior Minister Marijonas Misiukonis in a genocide case…

9 years ago
  • Society

Posthumous honours for suspected Holocaust perpetrator under scrutiny

A posthumous award of military rank to a man suspected of involvement in the Holocaust has caught attention of the…

9 years ago
  • Society

Jewish community leader calls for publication of list of Holocaust collaborators

On Friday, the Lithuanian Jewish Community called for the publication of “general data” on about 2,000 people who, according to…

9 years ago
  • Society

Lithuanian prosecutors ‘should look into list of Holocaust perpetrators’

The leader of the Jewish Community of Lithuania, Faina Kukliansky, says that the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre should submit…

9 years ago
  • Society

Genocide research centre may publish list of suspected Lithuanian Holocaust collaborators

The Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania (LGGRTC) has announced that it may publish a list of individuals who…

9 years ago
  • Society

Author explores Holocaust in Lithuania: ‘Our own boys used to go shooting people after school’

Author Rūta Vanagaitė recently presented a book, "Our Own", about the Holocaust in Lithuania. Although historians have been researching the…

9 years ago
  • Society

Lithuanian anti-Soviet resistance fighter stripped of state decoration due to involvement in Holocaust

After President Dalia Grybauskaitė changed a 2000 decree on state awards for Lithuania's post-war anti-Soviet resistance fighters, one partisan, Pranas…

9 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: Information offensives aim at pillars of Lithuanian statehood

City authorities recently removed four groups of Soviet-era statues from the Green Bridge in central Vilnius. Columnist Ramūnas Bogdanas argues…

9 years ago
  • Society

Former Soviet security officer sent to jail over 1956 operation on guerrilla leader

A Kaunas court on Thursday found former Soviet security officer Stanislovas Drelingas guilty of genocide and sentenced him to five…

10 years ago
  • Society

Lithuania grants state pensions to nearly 100 Jew rescuers

Second-degree state pensions were granted to 98 Lithuanian residents who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, the Social Security and Labour…

10 years ago
  • Society

80 Lithuanians who saved Jews during WWII granted status of freedom fighters

Rescuers of Jews were awarded with certificates testifying their legal status as participants of freedom fights. The ceremony on Thursday…

10 years ago
  • Society

Over 70 savers of Jews apply for freedom fighter status in Lithuania

Over 70 people who saved Jews during World War Two have applied to be granted the status of freedom fighters…

10 years ago
  • Society

Lithuanian Genocide Centre published data on 620 former KGB agents

The Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Centre says it has published data of 620 former KGB agents over less than…

10 years ago
  • Culture

Lithuania thanks “forest brothers” 70 years after start of anti-Soviet guerilla war

As Lithuania marks 70 years since the start of the guerilla war this summer, new initiatives are emerging in the…

10 years ago