Sergey Kanovich

  • History

Grigory Kanovich: the interview

­Grigory Kanovich is the last Lithuanian Jewish author with first-hand experience of the shtetls, the small Jewish towns that vanished…

5 years ago
  • Society

High profile ceremony for the forthcoming museum in Lithuania

On May 4, 2018 the ground-breaking ceremony for The Lost Shtetl Museum and Memorial Complex took place in the middle…

7 years ago
  • Society

Local authorities welcome plans to build Jewish museum in Šeduva

Local authorities in the northern Lithuanian district of Radviliškis on Monday welcomed plans to build a privately-financed state-of-the-art Jewish museum…

8 years ago
  • Society

World class museum will open In Lithuania

International museum professionals and architects are working on Museum of Šeduva Jewish history, which will be using the most advanced…

8 years ago
  • Society

The stones of Molėtai: Shoah lesson in Lithuania

August 29th, 2016, has become truly important day for Lithuanian people, for Israel, and for all of us who does…

8 years ago
  • Society

75th anniversary of massacre of Jews in Šeduva, Lithuania

Lithuania's Prime Minister joined dozens of people marking the seventy-fifth anniversary of the massacre of more than 650 Jews by…

8 years ago
  • Opinion

Sergey Kanovich: On protecting anti-Semites

Recently, members of the Vilnius City Street, Monument and Plaque Names Commission considered several different issues. [...]

8 years ago
  • Opinion

Sergey Kanovich: The dead don’t vote

The living keep silencing the dead, says Jewish-Lithuanian poet and author Sergey Kanovich. [...]

9 years ago
  • Society

Businessman promoting Jewish memory wins Person of Tolerance award

Businessman Valdas Balčiūnas has been named the 2015 Person of Tolerance in Lithuania, the public organization “Sugihara Foundation - Diplomats…

9 years ago
  • Culture

Kaunas city and Jewish organization sign deal on cemetery upkeep

The Municipality of Kaunas, Lithuania's second-largest city, has signed a cooperation agreement with Jewish organization Maceva regarding the Old Jewish…

9 years ago
  • Society

Unique Jewish heritage site opens in Šeduva

More than two years of work on the restoration and preservation of Jewish heritage in Šeduva were marked in a…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Sergey Kanovich: Holocaust Museum and Holocaust of Memory

What a silly title, I thought after I wrote it. There is no such thing in Lithuania. There was a…

10 years ago