The renegade human rights activist has turned his destructive political art performance into a non-fungible token - a digital piece of art that can be bought and sold.
Austria and Lithuania join Germany, Hungary and the Czech Republic in criticizing the ICC Pre-Trial Chamber ruling.
'You got it wrong': Russia’s ambassador to Japan responds to an article published by foreign ministers of Japan and Lithuania on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Valdas Rakutis faced criticism over his comments, made during a speech in parliament on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, including a rare rebuke from the US ambassador.
In a letter from the United States' Committee for the Preservation of Heritage Abroad Commission, Chairman Paul Packer said that Valdas Rakutis' comments were "false and reckless."
"There was no shortage of Holocaust perpetrators among the Jews themselves, especially in the ghetto self-government structures."
One of the survivors, Nathan Lewin, who was saved by Sugihara as a child, recalled his family's story at the reception.
Addressing the elephant in the room.
“This is like saying to Ku Klux Klan that they improve race relations in the US.”
The Lithuanian Parliament dedicated 2020, the 300th anniversary of the Gaon’s birth, to commemorate this world famous sage, and the country's 700-year-old Jewish history.
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