The Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania (LGGRTC) has announced that it may publish a list of individuals who had worked in police institutions during the Nazi occupation of Europe. This would amount to a list of individuals who may have contributed to the Holocaust in Lithuania, though it would not be clear in what capacity they may have collaborated. […]
Author Rūta Vanagaitė recently presented a book, “Our Own”, about the Holocaust in Lithuania. Although historians have been researching the topic for years, the Lithuanian society has yet to realize and acknowledge the part their compatriots, ordinary Lithuanians, played in the mass killings of Jews, Vanagaitė says. […]
Ludo Segers talks to the Dutch ambassador about taking over the presidency of the European council, on why David Cameron’s speech on getting a new deal for Britain with the EU was not anti-European, on how the Netherlands security interests are intrinsically intertwined with those of Lithuania and the Baltic States, and on how a new statue to be unveiled in Kaunas will commemorate an unsung Dutch hero of the Holocaust. […]
Over the last year, the Lithuanian government began focusing more on preserving Jewish heritage and grave sites, according to Faina Kukliansky, the chair of the Jewish Community of Lithuania. […]
On 14 October, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius attended the première of the film Persona Non Grata about a Japanese ambassador in Lithuania who issued visas to Jews during World War Two, saving thousands of people from death. […]
On 7 October, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Mantvydas Bekešius attended events marking the 75th anniversary of Visas for Life, which were organised by the Embassy of Japan in Lithuania, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. […]
The Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum presents the exhibit, Holocaust by Bullets, Yahad – In Unum – 10 Years of Investigations, from October 1 to November 22, 2015. […]
On 24 September, representatives of the British, Jewish and Lithuanian communities in the United Kingdom as well as members of parliament and foreign diplomats residing in London gathered at the Embassy to commemorate the victims of the Shoah in Lithuania, the Embassy reports. […]
Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė and Government Chancellor Alminas Mačiulis on Tuesday paid tribute to victims of the Jewish genocide at the Paneriai Memorial in Vilnius. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Tuesday awarded 47 people with Life Saving Crosses for saving Jews from the Nazis during World War Two. The majority of them were awarded posthumously. […]
After President Dalia Grybauskaitė changed a 2000 decree on state awards for Lithuania’s post-war anti-Soviet resistance fighters, one partisan, Pranas Končius-Adomas, was stripped of the Order of the Cross of Vytis, a decoration conferred on people who defended Lithuania’s freedom and independence. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė will on Tuesday, the eve of the National Memorial Day for the Genocide Victims of the Lithuanian Jews, award 47 people who saved Jewish people from the Nazis during World War Two. […]
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. […]
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. […]
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius paid tribute to the victims of the Holocaust in the Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem on Tuesday. […]
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