The Rokiškis Regional Museum and the US-based non-profit organization Remembering Litvaks, have established a new research award, the volunteer Private…
Lithuania gave the world many stellar personalities that have and continue to entertain, impress and influence the world. Here is…
Lithuanian specialists have digitized more than 80,000 pages of documents from a pre-war Jewish research institute in order to make…
Following on from Hollywood star Sean Penn, it now appears that US president Barack Obama also has family links to…
The famous US actor Sean Penn, two-time Oscar winner, appears to have Lithuanian roots with his Litvak (Lithuanian Jewish) grandfather…
As the Migration Department and courts have been rejecting citizenship applications from Jews of Lithuanian origin, lawmakers are determined to…
Families of Jewish nationals who were brought to Lithuania from France in the years of the Holocaust honored the memory…
The Lithuanian Jewish community criticized Lithuania's migration officials for refusing citizenship to Litvaks, Jews of Lithuanian descent, who left the…
"There is always someone in a family who pushes against silence," says Rita Gabis, in whose new book Lithuania’s Holocaust…
One of the world's most famous architects Massimiliano Fuksas who was born to a Lithuanian Jewish father in Rome, is…
Some Jews in Israel and the Republic of South Africa who left Lithuania between the two world wars and their…
Over €125,000 euros have been raised in a charity concert organized by the Lithuanian Jewish Community and the Order of…
An investigation will look into Jewish cultural artefacts that were seized by Nazis in Lithuania during World War Two. [...]
People like anniversaries, and 75 years since the establishment of Kaunas Ghetto is a good opportunity to remember the history…
The award-winning founder and director of the International Centre for Litvak Photography Richard Schofield recently commissioned a piece of music…
The traditional St. Casimir's Fair is starting in Vilnius on Friday. For the first time, the fair will include a…
Lithuania's Prosecutor General's Office said Thursday it would investigate a list of about 2,000 Lithuanians who may have taken part…
An old Jewish cemetery site in Vilnius should be listed as a cultural heritage object under state protection, suggests Diana…
Latvia's parliament has approved a new law that will see properties confiscated from Jews during World War II to be…
A wooden synagogue from the 1930s which was recently discovered underneath another building near Kaunas will not be preserved, the…