Jews in lithuania

Vilnius marks 700 years, but Lithuanian Jews reflect on darker era

Vilnius 700 events are scheduled through the end of the year, ensuring that the tensions over history and memory in the city continue to simmer.

 LITHUANIA’S PRESIDENTIAL palace in the foreground, as seen from the tower of Vilnius University.
 Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan speaking at the Lithuanian parliament, September 21, 2023.

Yad Vashem chairman 'encouraged' by Holocaust remembrance in Lithuania

 The main entrance to the Vilnius Ghetto in Lithuania during World War II.

'Lithuanian Slaughter of Its Jews': Testimonies from Holocaust survivors - review

 Members of Latvian Auxiliary Police assemble a group of Jews, Liepāja, July, 1941.

Russian media releases declassified documents on the Holocaust – report


Lithuanian bill would ban books critical of the country

The proposed law is said to be "one of the most blatant and harshest" laws curtailing free speech in Europe.

Vilnius, Lithuania

Lithuanian court nullifies Jewish community elections

The Dec. 21 ruling is the latest development in the fight against what many Lithuanian Jews consider a power grab by the community’s president, Faina Kukliansky.

Vilnius, Lithuania

Memories from the ashes

Max Leibowitz recalls his roots in Lithuania

A sign in Yiddish, Hebrew and Lithuanian saying,‘In this place the Hitlerist murderers and their local helpers in the year of 1941 murdered 250 Jews, children, women and men’

Why is Lithuania honoring perpetrators of the Holocaust?

Kazys Skirpa is just an example of the world celebrating defective heroes.

Kazys Skirpa, the Lithuanian representative to Germany who first proposed ethnic cleansing of Jews to Hitler, has streets named in his honor in two major Lithuanian cities

Writer censored for accusing Lithuanian hero of Holocaust crimes

The recall of Vanagaitė’s books came one day after she revealed that she is in a relationship with Efraim Zuroff, an Israeli Nazi hunter

Vilnius, Lithuania

Why Naujaneriai is also important

Among the victims were 512 men, 744 women and 511 children, who were buried in a grave some 20-meters long and 2-meters wide.

A RED rose is seen at the commemoration place during the March of the Living to honor Holocaust victims in Paneriai, near Vilnius.

Lithuanian FM: ‘Holocaust memory is important, but ties with Israel are the future’

Lithuania has been a staunch diplomatic ally for Israel, particularly at the UN and the within the EU.

LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER Linas Linkevicius presents Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a replica of a little girl from a Holocaust memorial in Lithuania during their meeting in Jerusalem on Monday.

Discovery in Lithuania: archeologists find ruins of Great Synagogue

Archeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority have found mikves, bathhouses, and other fascinating finds.

Volunteers, students and archaeologists excavate two recently uncovered mikves once belonging to the Great Synagogue of Vilna.

The Lietūkis Garage Massacre

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Lithuania reconsiders plans to build atop destroyed Jewish cemetery

Rabbis and activists met with the Lithuanian ambassador to the US to discuss the convention center to be built on top of the former Snipiskes Cemetery.

A RED ROSE is pictured during the March of the Living to honor Holocaust victims in Paneriai, near Vilnius, Lithuania, in 2012.