No Picture
Society

Names of Holocaust victims to be read for 5th time in Lithuania

The names of Holocaust victims will be read publicly in several Lithuanian cities and towns on Tuesday, September 22, on the eve of the Lithuanian Holocaust Remembrance Day. The Names initiative is being held in Vilnius for the fifth time now and this will be the first time when lists of Vilnius ghetto prisoners will be read at two locations: in the courtyard of the ghetto library and at the Skalvija movie theater. Residents of Jonava, Molėtai, Švėkšna and Jurbarkas will take turns reading the names of Jews murdered in their towns. […]

Chiune Sugihara
Society

Foreign minister of Lithuania pays tribute to Sugihara

Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius on Friday attended an informal discussion at the Sugihara House in Kaunas, Lithuania’s second-largest city, on educational projects, introducing Chiune Sugihara’s achievements, prospects for cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the need to raise general public awareness, in particular amongst young people, on the legacy of Sugihara and other diplomats who saved lives. […]

Stasys Lozoraitis
Uncategorized

How Lithuanian-Polish feud and Baltic Entente played into Soviet hands

Between the two world wars, Lithuania was an enthusiastic new nation state caught in a precarious international situation. Trapped between two expansionist powers, Germany and the Soviet Union, Lithuania tried to strengthen its security, but the main handicap was its feud with Poland over Vilnius. One diplomat tried to change that but it was too late. […]

No Picture
Society

Lithuanian judge born in deportation removes himself from hearing Soviet agent case

Judge Pranas Šimkus in the northern Lithuanian city of Panevėžys has withdrawn from hearing the case of Jonas Gailiūnas, 87, a former Soviet secret service agent who is standing trial for the deportation of Lithuanian people during the Soviet times. […]

Potsdam Conference
Opinion

Opinion: Potsdam Conference and Russia’s crooked-mirror politics in Kaliningrad

Most of the time history can’t be put to bed even though agreements to end wars have been concluded, victors have drawn new boundary lines, promises made, but they soon get either forgotten or swept under the rug, as if they weren’t there. The story of the northern part of former East Prussia (now known as the Kaliningrad exclave) is a good example of a conveniently ignored agreement made at the 1945 Potsdam conference to resolve the fate of the territory at a later peace treaty with Germany. […]

Society

Hundreds mark anniversary of Welles Declaration in Vilnius

About 300 people celebrated the 75-year anniversary of the US declaration that condemned the half-century occupation of the Baltic states. […]

The Battle of Grunwald as imagined by 19-century Polish painter Jan Matejko
Society

Lithuanians go to Grunwald for Battle of Žalgiris commemoration

A Lithuanian delegation has left for Grunwald, Poland, to attend the 605th anniversary of the Battle of Žalgiris (also known as the Battle of Grunwald), Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said on Friday. […]