Jews in Lithuania

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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…

4 years ago
  • 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…

5 years ago
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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…

5 years ago
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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…

8 years ago
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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…

8 years ago
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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…

8 years ago
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day events begin in Lithuania

Events marking the International Holocaust Remembrance Day are getting underway in Lithuania on Thursday. [...]

8 years ago
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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…

8 years ago
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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…

8 years ago
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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…

8 years ago