Vilnius synagogue
Politics

Conservative MPs propose to name 2019 as year of Lithuanian Jews

Five parliamentarians of the conservative Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats propose to designate 2019 as the year of Lithuanian Jews. […]

Efraim Zuroff, Rūta Vanagaitė
Opinion

Vanagaitė confesses about her new relationship: her new significant other is the well-known Nazi hunter E. Zuroff

Rūta Vanagaitė was accompanied by Efraim Zuroff to the signing of her autobiography Višta Strimelės Galva on Thursday evening in Vilnius. R. Vanagaitė admitted to DELFI her one year long relationship with the Simon Wiesenthal centre’s director and so-called angriest nazi hunter E. Zuroff. […]

From an exhibit on the Roma in the Holocaust
Society

Genocide research centre may publish list of suspected Lithuanian Holocaust collaborators

The Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania (LGGRTC) has announced that it may publish a list of individuals who had worked in police institutions during the Nazi occupation of Europe. This would amount to a list of individuals who may have contributed to the Holocaust in Lithuania, though it would not be clear in what capacity they may have collaborated. […]

Rūta Vanagaitė
Society

Author explores Holocaust in Lithuania: ‘Our own boys used to go shooting people after school’

Author Rūta Vanagaitė recently presented a book, “Our Own”, about the Holocaust in Lithuania. Although historians have been researching the topic for years, the Lithuanian society has yet to realize and acknowledge the part their compatriots, ordinary Lithuanians, played in the mass killings of Jews, Vanagaitė says. […]