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  • Book review: The destruction of the shtetl

    Grigory Kanovich’s latest novel tells of the dramatic and heartbreaking fate of a Lithuanian town called Mishkine.

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    Petition: remove honors for Lithuanian Nazi collaborator

    The change.org petition, started by Nazi collaborator Jonas Noreika's granddaughter, calls on the Lithuanian government to remove posthumous honors granted to him.

  • Litvaks, Jews in Lithuania and antisemitism

    Lithuania’s Jews persevere

  • Vilnius, Lithuania

    Lithuania easing restrictions for Jews to reclaim citizenship

    South African Jewish community – home to tens of thousands of former Litvaks – lauds government decision.

    By TAMARA ZIEVE,JTA

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    Famous Holocaust escape tunnel located in Lithuania using hi-tech

    Antiquities Authority uses predictive scanning to find shaft dug by ‘Corpse Unit’ at Ponary Massacre site near Vilnius

    By DANIEL K. EISENBUD

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    Man with a mission: The tireless Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff

    Zuroff has worn his heart on his sleeve for almost 40 years, ruffling feathers in the highest places, determinedly taking on governments and figures of authority.

    By PAUL ALSTER

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    Lithuanian town plans to name street after priest who organized gang that murdered Jews

    Naming flap exposes issues with dealing with Holocaust memory.

    By SAM SOKOL

  • Vilnius, Lithuania

    Lithuanian Jews call for government to publish list of Nazi collaborators

    The Genocide Center has given the government a list containing 2,055 names of supposed perpetrators but Vilnius neither published it nor made any attempt to investigate the people concerned.

    By SAM SOKOL

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    Lithuania pledges to publish names of 1,000 suspected Holocaust perpetrators

    State museum on genocide says will try to publish book this year naming local Nazi collaborators.

    By JTA

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    Speakers at anti-Semitism confab accused of Holocaust distortion

    “As far as combatting anti-Semitism, local institutions can be characterized as totally worthless in terms of fulfilling their ostensible function in Lithuanian society.”

    By SAM SOKOL

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    Israeli researcher to attend opening of Gandhi-Kallenbach ‘monument of friendship’ in Lithuania

    Statues of Gandhi and Kallenbach have been placed near a historic synagogue on a river bank in the small western town of Rusne, near the Russian border.

    By STEVE LINDE

  • Vilnius, Lithuania

    Lithuania posthumously strips Nazi collaborator of honors

    Pranas Končius-Adomas is stripped of the Order of the Cross of Vytis "in response to an appeal by the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania.”

    By SAM SOKOL

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    Vilnius announces plan to buy land parcel in Jewish graveyard

    Jewish groups slam statement issued over Rosh Hashana.

    By SAM SOKOL

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