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14-year-old chronicler of the Vilna Ghetto
More than seven decades ago, long queues of people would line outside the house number 4 on Žemaitijos Street in Vilnius. Each day, two hundred hungry and exhausted creatures came to the library of the Vilna Ghetto – not for bread, but for books. […]
Society
Vilnius police take down Soviet flags on Russia’s Victory Day
Vilnius police were alerted twice on Monday about public displays of Soviet Union symbols, which is a crime in Lithuania. […]
Society
British expat peels layers of Litvak history in Kaunas
People like anniversaries, and 75 years since the establishment of Kaunas Ghetto is a good opportunity to remember the history of Lithuania’s Litvaks, says a British expat offering an original way of doing it. […]
Society
Society
Lithuanian WWII hero who captured Nazi submarine
During World War Two, Nazi Germany‘s submarines would regularly attack Allied forces. In response, the Allies formed special brigades to monitor German submarines. One of these brigades included a serviceman named Zenonas Lukošius, a Lithuanian expatriate. He has become a hero of WWII. […]
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How Lithuanian-Polish feud and Baltic Entente played into Soviet hands
Between the two world wars, Lithuania was an enthusiastic new nation state caught in a precarious international situation. Trapped between two expansionist powers, Germany and the Soviet Union, Lithuania tried to strengthen its security, but the main handicap was its feud with Poland over Vilnius. One diplomat tried to change that but it was too late. […]
Opinion
Society
Lithuanian historian: Moscow does not have moral right to host end of WWII celebrations
Ronaldas Račinskas, the head of the International Commission for the Evaluation of Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania, approves of the ideas of Polish politicians when they say that events marking the end of World War II hostilities should take place in other European capitals and not in Moscow. He says that Russia continues to justify its actions with categories from World War II. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian president rejects invitation to Moscow WWII event
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė has received an invitation from Russia to attend festivities to mark 70th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory against Nazi Germany but will not attend the events in Moscow next year. […]
Society
History lessons in hybrid warfare: How Lithuania lost Klaipėda to Nazi Germany without firing a shot
Russia ripping off Crimea from Ukraine has historical precedents that Lithuania experienced first-hand, according to historian Vytautas Jokubauskas, who spoke at a Lithuanian Riflemen’s Union conference on civil defence during hybrid war. […]