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. […]
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. […]
Rescuers of Jews deserve more respect and attention, Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius Thursday said at a ceremony at the government’s building to honour and award Righteous Among Nations. […]
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. […]
Members of the Committee for the Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries in Europe said after meeting with Lithuania’s prime minister that they had no critical remarks to the government in connection to the plans to renovate the former Sports Palace building built on an old Jewish cemetery. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius met with incoming Israeli Ambassador to Lithuania Amir Maimon on Tuesday and said he hoped for cultural exchanges between the two nations. […]
Second-degree state pensions were granted to 98 Lithuanian residents who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, the Social Security and Labour Ministry said. […]
What a silly title, I thought after I wrote it. There is no such thing in Lithuania. There was a Holocaust, but there is no museum. It should have been here twenty-five years ago, but it’s still not here. A kind of anniversary. Cynical and macabre. More cynical than the long decades when the word “Holocaust” was not to be pronounced, let alone capitalized… […]
On 9 January, Lithuania’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mantvydas Bekešius visited Brussels, where he met with Rabbi Menachem Margolin, director of the European Jewish Association, and Henri Gutman, president of the Jewish Laic Community Centre, Lithuania’s MFA said. […]
Lithuanian Jews have shown support to the Ukrainian Jewish community which is experiencing difficult times. Last week, before the end of the Jewish holiday Hanukkah, Lithuanian Jews presented books written by Grigory Kanovich to the Ukrainian Jewish community. […]
We offer you a recent interview with Grigory Kanovich who several weeks won the National Prize of Lithuania for Art and Culture and was named an Honorary Citizen of his hometown, Jonava. […]
Colloquium Vilnense invites you to a session at Vilnius University on the survival of Lithuanian Jews in the GULag and their way to Displaced Persons Camps after the end of the war. Violeta Davoliūtė (Vilnius) and Markus Nesselrodt (Berlin) will present their ongoing research. […]
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