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Culture

The Vilna Yiddish Reading Circle starts 17th season

The Jewish Cultural and Information Center, a partnership project of the Jewish Community of Lithuania and the Vilnius Municipality, is proud to host the 17th annual Vilna Yiddish Reading Circle this season. […]

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Society

Kaunas commemorates brutal WWII Jewish pogrom

The massacre of Jews at the Lietūkis garage 74 years ago was one of the most brutal not only in Lithuania but also Europe, Gercas Zakas, the leader of the Jewish community in Lithuania’s second-largest city of Kaunas, said during a commemoration ceremony on Friday. […]

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

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. […]