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…

6 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…

9 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