History

Mr. Berger addresses the International Holocaust Remembrance Photo Ludo Segers
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Washington

January 28, 2015 Ludo Segers 0

On Tuesday, an International Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony took place in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. The International Holocaust Remembrance Day coincided this year with the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Lithuanian Ambassador to the USA, Žygimantas Pavilionis, attended the solemn remembrance service. The Museum’s senior advisor, Arthur Berger, welcomed the gathering, that included a number of holocaust survivors and a large number of diplomats. […]

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Russian ambassador sends mixed message in WWII congratulation letter to Lithuania

January 26, 2015 DELFI EN 0

Alexander Udaltsov, the Russian Ambassador to Lithuania, has released a public letter, congratulating the country on “the 70th anniversary of Lithuania’s liberation from the Germans-fascists”. The ambassador also makes references to topical issues of today, like the conflict in Ukraine, that are designed to provoke controversy, a Lithuanian political observer says. […]

Photo from the archive of Sergey Kanovich
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Sergey Kanovich: Holocaust Museum and Holocaust of Memory

January 26, 2015 Sergey Kanovich 0

What a silly title, I thought after I wrote it. There is no such thing in Lithuania. There was a Holocaust, but there is no museum. It should have been here twenty-five years ago, but it’s still not here. A kind of anniversary. Cynical and macabre. More cynical than the long decades when the word “Holocaust” was not to be pronounced, let alone capitalized… […]

Culture

Scholars offer recommendations for history policy makers of Lithuania and Belarus

January 19, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Historical memory has a strong impact on the cohesion of political society. The historical memory of any given society is affected by a whole range of factors, such as the methodology and content of history teaching at school, the creation of various memorials and alternative sources of information about the past. Most of these factors depend on the political sphere and are a direct consequence of political or administrative decisions. In short, a consequence of state history policy. […]

Filmmakers, Jonas Ohman and Vincas Sruoginis. Photo Ludo Segers
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13 January commemoration – The Invisible Front in Washington

January 14, 2015 Ludo Segers 0

On Tuesday, 13 January, the Lithuanian community and a large number of American guests commemorated in Washington’s University Club the day in 1991 when the Soviet army attempted to overthrow Lithuania’s legitimate government in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union. The attendants paid tribute to the 14 people killed and the over one thousand unarmed Lithuanian civilians injured when the Soviet army and Special Forces attempted to overtake the Vilnius TV Tower and the Lithuanian parliament – the Seimas. […]

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Michnik to Lithuania: Poland always was, is and will be with you

January 13, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Despite differences, Poland always was, is and will be with you, said the Polish public figure, one of the leaders of Poland’s oppositional movement Solidarity, editor-in-chief of Poland’s largest newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, Adam Michnik. […]

Culture

President Grybauskaitė invites Lithuanians to join remembrance campaign

January 12, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Over 1,500 Lithuanian schools, state institutions and organisations have responded to the invitation by the International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania and President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who is a patron of the initiative, to participate in the civic campaign Memory is Alive Through Testimony, which is dedicated to the Day of Freedom Defenders. […]

Inga Sadaunikaitė-Kozhevnikov (with a flag) organized a team of runners in response to an invitation from Vilnius. Photo by Darius Kuzmickas
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US Lithuanians organize 13 January run in Portland

January 12, 2015 Laurynas R. Misevicius from Portland 0

When an e-mail from Vilnius came with an invitation to join the traditional annual run “On the Road of Life and Death”, we were listening to Brahms’ piano concerto in Portland performed by a student of the prestigious Rice University in Houston (Texas), Lithuanian pianist Rūta Kuzmickaitė who was born five years after the historic events of 13 January 1991. She had returned for holidays to her family in Oregon. […]

13 January 1991. Photo by L.Gilinskis
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Lithuania prepares to commemorate Day of Freedom Defenders

January 12, 2015 BNS 0

A series of events to mark the Day of Freedom Defenders is starting in Lithuania on Monday in tribute to the victims of the Soviet aggression of 13 January 1991. […]