Culture
Holocaust researchers meeting in Vilnius
A conference on As Mass Murder Began: Identifying and Remembering the Killing Sites of Summer-Fall 1941 is starting at the Vilnius Gaon Jewish State Museum on Wednesday. […]
Holocaust in Lithuania
Society
Local authorities welcome plans to build Jewish museum in Šeduva
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. […]
Society
World class museum will open In Lithuania
International museum professionals and architects are working on Museum of Šeduva Jewish history, which will be using the most advanced technologies to tell its visitors about the history and culture of similar Litvak shtetls. […]
Global LT
Lithuania: my journey of return
As a Cape Town born Jew, my life has come full circle. Although I was born after his death, my zeida, Rabbi Shimon Ze’ev Aysenberg, played an indelible influence in my life. My father, Isaac Eisenberg, born in a stable in Mogilov, Belarus, in 1922, a medical doctor and writer, spent his life interpreting his childhood memories. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian formin didn’t attend Paris conf in diplomatic support for Israel
Lithuania sent a deputy foreign minister to the Middle East peace conference in Paris, while its neighbors were represented by their top diplomats. […]
CORPORATE
Jewish community‘s efforts – still fruitless
The year begins with continuing old issues and unresolved questions. One of them is the idea of a monument for Lithuanian citizens who helped rescue Jews in Vilnius. Such a monument was suggested by one […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian, Israeli presidents underline Holocaust memory, business ties
The presidents of Lithuania and Israel on Sunday underlined the importance of preserving the heritage of Lithuanian Jews and of expanding business ties as they marked 25 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. […]
CORPORATE
Man of the year of LRT Radio on Jews, Russia and theatre
Playwright Marius Ivaškevičius spoke with LRT Radio about his participation in a march in memory of the Holocaust in Lithuania, his work beyond just playwriting and his relations with Russia. Regarding them he noted that […]
Global LT
Several hundred Litvaks granted Lithuanian citizenship after legal amendments
Several hundred applications for Lithuanian citizenship have already been approved since the country amended the law last June to ease the rules for descendants of Jews who left Lithuania in the interwar period to apply for a Lithuanian passport. […]
Global LT
Dark Lullaby: Irene Angelico’s belated pilgrimage to Vilnius
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. […]
Society
President awards 46 Jewish rescuers with Life Saving Crosses
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday signed a decree to award Life Saving Crosses to 46 people who rescued Jews from the Holocaust during World War II. […]
Global LT
Vilnius should establish World Litvak Museum, restore YIVO institute
Vilnius has been suggested to establish the World Litvak Museum and restore a Jewish research institute, as well as pay tribute to the memory of Jews who contributed to the restoration of Lithuania’s statehood in the government building. […]
Society
Lithuania commemorates Jewish genocide victims
Lithuania is commemorating Jewish Genocide Memorial Day today, on September 23. […]
Society
Opinion
Do the thoughts, ideals, and actions of Jonas Noreika epitomize the very best of Lithuania?
Do the thoughts, ideals, and actions of Jonas Noreika epitomize the very best of Lithuania; one of cooperation, respect, and mutual appreciation? Are his ideals ones we want our children, and our children’s children to emulate, now only growing, maturing, seeking to be guided by us – their role-models and teachers? […]
Society
The stones of Molėtai: Shoah lesson in Lithuania
August 29th, 2016, has become truly important day for Lithuanian people, for Israel, and for all of us who does not know the past term for Holocaust. On that day, a small Lithuanian town of Moletai has become a scene of tangible and penetrating lesson on the Shoah. It was a rare event – unpretending, quiet and sincere; determined and devoted; the real thing. […]
Society
Lithuania to be first Baltic state with ‘stumbling stone’ Holocaust memorials
Brass bricks known as “stumbling stones” will be embedded in the sidewalks of four Lithuanian cities to commemorate victims of the Holocaust.
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Society
Litvaks will be able to gain Lithuanian citizenship with new Seimas amendment
The Lithuanian parliament (Seimas) on Thursday passed amendments to the Law on Citizenship, which will enable Litvaks, i.e. Jews of Lithuanian origin, and their descendants who left the country in the interwar period, to restore their citizenship rights.
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Society
No one will be prosecuted from Lithuanian Holocaust perpetrators list, says Lithuanian prosecutor
Lithuania’s Prosecutor General’s Office has analysed a list of some 2,000 people suspected of involvement in the Holocaust, but will not be pursuing charges, because not one of them is still alive, 15min.lt reports. […]
Society
Lithuanians who guarded Jewish massacre sites are guilty too – Lithuanian historian
Those who pulled the trigger during the Jewish genocide in Lithuania are not the only ones who should be considered guilty – those who transported Jews and guarded the sites of massacres should also be held accountable, a local historian says. […]