Rūta Vanagaitė
Opinion

Opinion: Why we have not, do not and will not talk about Holocaust in Lithuania

Vilijampolė, Kaunas, winter. The project “Being a Jew”. A group of thirty teachers led by a Jewish guide are standing in the former Kaunas ghetto. Houses, garages, storage spaces, wood piles where, during the war, thousands of Jews were herded like animals by the Nazis, where Jewish children played, and from where they were later taken to a square or to one of the Kaunas forts and shot. […]

Opinion

Lithuanians and Jews: What’s changed and what hasn’t over the last 40 years?

Tomas Venclova, a prominent Lithuanian author, poet, translator and professor of literature at Yale University, delivered the following remarks at a conference on Holocaust education held at Vilnius City Hall on April 17, 2015, the final event in the Being a Jew project. […]

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Society

Israeli Embassy in Lithuania awarded the Righteous Among the Nations

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. […]

Society

March of the Living honours Holocaust victims in Paneriai, Lithuania

Hundreds of people attended the traditional March of the Living on the Holocaust Memorial Day from a railway station to the memorial where 70,000 Jews were massacred during World War Two. […]

Israeli Ambassador Amir Maimon. Photo by R.Dačkus
Foreign affairs

Israeli diplomat stresses historic importance of Vilnius to Jews in embassy opening ceremony

During the official opening of Israel‘s first Embassy to Lithuania on Thursday, diplomats emphasized the exceptional importance of Vilnius in the Jewish history. […]

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Society

Lithuania grants state pensions to nearly 100 Jew rescuers

Second-degree state pensions were granted to 98 Lithuanian residents who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, the Social Security and Labour Ministry said. […]