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New Rokiškis award to honour Litvak war hero

The Rokiškis Regional Museum and the US-based non-profit organization Remembering Litvaks, have established a new research award, the volunteer Private…

9 years ago
  • Society

The biggest global stars that you never knew were from Lithuania

Lithuania gave the world many stellar personalities that have and continue to entertain, impress and influence the world. Here is…

9 years ago
  • Society

Chronicle of pre-war Litvak life: Vilnius Jewish archive made available online

Lithuanian specialists have digitized more than 80,000 pages of documents from a pre-war Jewish research institute in order to make…

9 years ago
  • Global LT

What are Barack Obama’s family links to Lithuania?

Following on from Hollywood star Sean Penn, it now appears that US president Barack Obama also has family links to…

9 years ago
  • Global LT
  • Society

Hollywood star Sean Penn’s grandfather came from which town in Lithuania?

The famous US actor Sean Penn, two-time Oscar winner, appears to have Lithuanian roots with his Litvak (Lithuanian Jewish) grandfather…

9 years ago
  • Politics

Lithuanian MPs want to amend citizenship law amid Litvak complaints

As the Migration Department and courts have been rejecting citizenship applications from Jews of Lithuanian origin, lawmakers are determined to…

9 years ago
  • Society

Families of French Jews killed in Lithuania pay tribute in Kaunas

Families of Jewish nationals who were brought to Lithuania from France in the years of the Holocaust honored the memory…

9 years ago
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Lithuanian officials ‘need history lessons’, says Jewish community leader

The Lithuanian Jewish community criticized Lithuania's migration officials for refusing citizenship to Litvaks, Jews of Lithuanian descent, who left the…

9 years ago
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  • Opinion
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The realization your grandfather may have murdered thousands of Jews

"There is always someone in a family who pushes against silence," says Rita Gabis, in whose new book Lithuania’s Holocaust…

9 years ago
  • Culture

World famous Lithuanian-descent Italian architect to create ‘gift to Vilnius’

One of the world's most famous architects Massimiliano Fuksas who was born to a Lithuanian Jewish father in Rome, is…

9 years ago
  • Global LT

Lithuania’s U-turn on granting citizenship to Litvaks

Some Jews in Israel and the Republic of South Africa who left Lithuania between the two world wars and their…

9 years ago
  • Society

Charity concert raises €125k for Lithuanians who risked lives to save Jews

Over €125,000 euros have been raised in a charity concert organized by the Lithuanian Jewish Community and the Order of…

9 years ago
  • Culture

Lithuania to look for Jewish artefacts seized by Nazis

An investigation will look into Jewish cultural artefacts that were seized by Nazis in Lithuania during World War Two. [...]

9 years ago
  • Society

British expat peels layers of Litvak history in Kaunas

People like anniversaries, and 75 years since the establishment of Kaunas Ghetto is a good opportunity to remember the history…

9 years ago
  • Culture

’75 year-long musical composition’ to be played to commemorate Lithuania’s Holocaust victims

The award-winning founder and director of the International Centre for Litvak Photography Richard Schofield recently commissioned a piece of music…

9 years ago
  • Society

Traditional St. Casimir Fair begins in Vilnius

The traditional St. Casimir's Fair is starting in Vilnius on Friday. For the first time, the fair will include a…

9 years ago
  • Society

Lithuanian prosecutors start to investigate alleged Holocaust perpetrators on list

Lithuania's Prosecutor General's Office said Thursday it would investigate a list of about 2,000 Lithuanians who may have taken part…

9 years ago
  • Culture

Historic Jewish cemetery in Vilnius to be protected by state

An old Jewish cemetery site in Vilnius should be listed as a cultural heritage object under state protection, suggests Diana…

9 years ago
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Latvian parliament returns seized buildings to Jewish community as restitution

Latvia's parliament has approved a new law that will see properties confiscated from Jews during World War II to be…

9 years ago
  • Culture

Wooden 1930s synagogue in Kulautuva will not be preserved

A wooden synagogue from the 1930s which was recently discovered underneath another building near Kaunas will not be preserved, the…

9 years ago