Lithuania presents itself as a state that has learned from history. It hosts panels on inclusion, designates memorial days for Jewish and Roma victims, and speaks fluently about multicultural repair.
The Lost Shtetl Museum in Lithuania is significant because it reflects international cooperation and interest.
The tragedy is not that Lithuania cannot tell the truth. It is that it can, but cannot survive as presently constituted if it ...
In 1941, Jacob Gens was given an unthinkable task: deciding which Jewish people would be turned over to the Germans. Gens, ...
Lithuania’s outgoing chancellor agreed in principle to a lump sum transfer $47 million to the country’s Jewish community as compensation for lost Holocaust-era property. Chancellor Deividas Matulionis ...
TEL AVIV, Israel and LEHI, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MyHeritage, the leading global service for discovering your past and empowering your future, and LitvakSIG, a U.S. non-profit organization providing ...
(Bloomberg) -- Lithuania’s Jewish community urged the Baltic nation’s president to intervene to prevent a party involved in an antisemitic scandal from becoming part of a new ruling coalition. The ...
A Jewish group is outraged by Lithuania’s plans to convert a sports complex into a convention center at the site of a historic Jewish cemetery, reversing decades of advocacy to commemorate the ...
In the Vilna Ghetto, amid unspeakable suffering, Jewish prisoners sang a Yiddish song called “Vilna,” expressing their deep love for the Lithuanian city that Jews had called home for at least 600 ...
Jewish leaders in Lithuania announced Tuesday they were temporarily closing the Vilnius Synagogue and the community's headquarters due to threats, citing an "atmosphere of rising tension". The move ...