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Carrying Irena‘s Stone
Irena Veisaitė passed away 40 days ago, and Lithuania without her, for me, is not the same. In December 2020 the 92-year old became a victim of the pandemic, after she was transferred to a […]
Jews in Lithuania
History
Jonas Noreika – General Vėtra: a few questions and answers about him
Member of the Parliament Arvydas Anušauskas who also is a historian spent his life in researching the post-World War Two Lithuania under the Soviet and Nazi occupation. Mr Anušaukas has a few words to say […]
History
Grigory Kanovich: the interview
Grigory Kanovich is the last Lithuanian Jewish author with first-hand experience of the shtetls, the small Jewish towns that vanished from the face of the earth in 1941. This interview was given to Swedish journalist […]
History
The Jewish Quarter in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania – isolation or privilege?
Quarters comprising of several streets that were designed along religious, ethnic or professional lines were a regular way of life in European cities during the Middle Ages. Thus the settling of Jews, who employed the use of a section of the city that was delegated to them by law did not go counter to the pattern that had developed for settling in cities. Orthodox believers, Germans, Jews, butchers, glass makers and others who established themselves in Great Duchy of Lithuania (GDL) cities divided up living space in a similar manner. Thus Jews brought traditions to the GDL that were typical for them in the quarters they lived, traditions that coincided with other trends that managed to express themselves in GDL cities. […]
CORPORATE
German historian poses a question that holds many Lithuanians up to Shame
Effective German cooperation with the Lithuanians became a death trap for the Jews of Lithuania. In Lithuania it was patriots – ethnic nationalists – who killed the Jews in the hopes of creating a strong ethnic state without Jews, Russians and Poles. This is what eminent German historian Dr. Christoph Dieckmann said in an exclusive interview with DELFI. Dr. Dieckmann who works at the Fritz Bauer Institute in Frankfurt am Main wrote the book “Germany’s Occupation Policy in Lithuania from 1941 to 1944”. […]
CORPORATE
About the Jews and a Dream
I love this city and I always say one and the same thing to friends from abroad: Vilnius is a hidden pearl. When you want calm, there’s calm; when you want sound and sprees, they’re […]
Society
International Holocaust Remembrance Day events begin in Lithuania
Events marking the International Holocaust Remembrance Day are getting underway in Lithuania on Thursday. […]
Society
Kaunas family to be awarded as Righteous Among Nations
Israel’s Ambassador to Lithuania Amir Maimon will Friday award the Yad Vashem medal and honors of Righteous Among the Nations to the Blažaičiai family, which risked their lives during World War II to rescue Jews from Nazi genocide. […]
Society
Grybauskaitė recognises 46 Lithuanians who saved Jews in WWII
President Dalia Grybauskaitė yesterday awarded the Life Saving Cross to forty-six Lithuanian citizens who risked danger to save Jews from probable death in Nazi-occupied Lithuania during World War II. Of the forty-six, only two were still alive to receive the award in person. […]
Global LT
Vilnius should establish World Litvak Museum, restore YIVO institute
Vilnius has been suggested to establish the World Litvak Museum and restore a Jewish research institute, as well as pay tribute to the memory of Jews who contributed to the restoration of Lithuania’s statehood in the government building. […]