Holocaust

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Israeli Embassy in Lithuania awarded the Righteous Among the Nations

April 18, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

The Embassy of the State of Israel, together with the Lithuanian Jewish community and the Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum, on a Day of remembrance of the Holocaust, this year marked on 16 April, awarded the Righteous Among the Nations. The State of Israel awarded six Lithuanian families, which in spite of the danger during the Second World War, saved Lithuanian Jewish people. The award ceremony was held in the Government’s Office of the Republic of Lithuania. […]

Political Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel Alon Ushpiz and Political Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Rolandas Kačinskas
Foreign affairs

Israel and Lithuania have much to offer one another, says Lithuanian official

March 17, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Opening of the Embassy of Israel in Vilnius and Political consultations between two foreign ministries, led by political directors Rolandas Kačinskas and Alon Ushpiz, are signs of solid and profound relations that Lithuania and Israel enjoy today, according to Lithuania’s MFA. […]

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Lithuanian foreign minister joins Holocaust remembrance event in Auschwitz

January 28, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

On 27 January 2015, Linas Linkevičius, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, together with the delegation led by the President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė attended the ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the camp’s liberation in Auschwitz, Poland. […]

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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Foreign affairs

Lithuanian president to attend Holocaust memorial events at Auschwitz

January 26, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė is going to Warsaw on Tuesday to attend a memorial day of Holocaust victims at the Auschwitz concentration camp together with other state leaders and representatives of international organizations. […]

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Jewish remains reburied at Kaunas 7th Fort

October 28, 2014 BNS 0

The Jewish remains found in a mass grave at the 7th Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania’s second-largest city, have been reburied in the place they had been found. […]