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Lithuania condemns terrorist attack in Jerusalem synagogue

November 19, 2014 Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuania’s Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned Tuesday’s terrorist attack in the Har Nof synagogue in Jerusalem. […]

Exhibition opening. Photo courtesy of MFA

Exhibition “Hello, Paris! The Path of Litvak Artists” opens in London

November 14, 2014 Lithuania Tribune 0

On 11 November, representatives of the British, Jewish and Lithuanian communities in London attended the opening of the exhibition “Hello, Paris. The Path of Litvak Artists” at Europe House, Lihtuania’s Embassy in London reports. […]

Jewish remains reburied at Kaunas 7th Fort

October 28, 2014 BNS 0

The Jewish remains found in a mass grave at the 7th Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania’s second-largest city, have been reburied in the place they had been found. […]

US recruited Lithuanian Nazi collaborator to spy for CIA

October 28, 2014 Lithuania Tribune 0

Declassified US records show that American intelligence agencies recruited former Nazis, including a Lithuanian collaborator, to spy on the communist bloc countries during the Cold War, the BBC reports. […]

The BBC's The Eichmann Show. Photo courtesy of Vilnius mayor's office

Vilnius plays Jerusalem in BBC’s The Eichmann Show

October 25, 2014 Lithuania Tribune 0

Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, was chosen by the BBC for The Eichmann Show, starring British film and TV star Martin Freeman. The film tells a story about the trial of one most notorious figures of the Holocaust. The 90-minute drama focuses on the broadcast of the trial of Adolf Eichmann, chief architect of the Nazis’ “final solution” plan to exterminate Europe’s Jews. […]

Misha (Meyshke) Shapiro (at left), head of a region’s tiny remnant Jewish community, chairs the annual commemoration in the forest at a mass grave where 8,000 Jews were killed in two days in October of 1941. Photo defendinghistory.com

Annual memorial for the Jews of Svintsyán (Švenčionys): Small but well done

October 8, 2014 DefendingHistory.com 0

Some fifty people gathered in the forest at midday on Sunday at the mass grave at Poligón, outside Švenčioneliai (Yiddish: Svintsyánke), in northeastern Lithuania, where around 8,000 Jews were murdered on 7 and 8 October 1941 after more than a week of barbaric incarceration and humiliation. […]

80 Lithuanians who saved Jews during WWII granted status of freedom fighters

October 2, 2014 BNS 0

Rescuers of Jews were awarded with certificates testifying their legal status as participants of freedom fights. The ceremony on Thursday included words of gratitude and critical remarks to the government for delays. […]

Jewish remains found at Kaunas Fort to be reburied this month

October 2, 2014 BNS 0

The Jewish remains found at the VII Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania’s second-largest city, will be reburied in the place they were found later this month. […]

Rachil Kostanian - one of the founders of the Museum and the Holocaust Exhibition welcomes all guests and shares her memories about Dmitri Gelpern

“He was like a captain of a ship,” Kaunas ghetto resistance leader commemorated at Holocaust Exhibit

October 2, 2014 Christine Neijstrom 0

The Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum Holocaust Exhibit, housed in a traditional wooden green house on Pamėnkalnio gatvė, commemorated the 70th anniversary of the liquidation of the Kaunas ghetto on 30 September. The commemoration was scheduled to coincide with the centennial of the birth of the museum’s co-founder and Kaunas ghetto leader, Dmitrijus Gelpernas. […]

Kaunas Ghetto survivor shares memories as Lithuania marks Holocaust day

September 23, 2014 BNS 0

As the Seimas of Lithuania on Tuesday held a commemorative sitting to mark the 70th anniversary of the liquidation of the Kaunas and Šiauliai Ghettos, Tobijas Jefetas, chairman of the Lithuanian union of former ghetto and concentration camp prisoners, shared his memories as one of very few Jewish children who survived the war. […]

Lithuania to mark Jewish Genocide Memorial Day

September 22, 2014 BNS 0

A series of events to start in Lithuania on Monday, marking the National Memorial Day for the Genocide Victims of the Lithuanian Jews. […]

Rabbi Herschel Gluck. Photo courtesy of the Lithuanian Embassy in London

Holocaust in Lithuania Commemorated at the Embassy in London

September 19, 2014 Lithuania Tribune 0

On 18th September 2014, representatives of the British, Jewish and Lithuanian communities in the United Kingdom as well as Members of Parliament and foreign diplomats residing in London gathered at the Embassy to commemorate the Holocaust in Lithuania. […]