On January 27, the world pauses to remember the Holocaust. Lithuania joins the ceremonies—somber statements, wreaths, expressions of grief. Yet inside Lithuania, a different message is engraved in ...
The tragedy is not that Lithuania cannot tell the truth. It is that it can, but cannot survive as presently constituted if it ...
At the Lost Shtetl Museum in Šeduva, Lithuania, we are committed to telling one of the Holocaust's most devastating yet often ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The World Jewish Congress-supported Thrive Project initiative earlier this week convened Baltic and Nordic Jewish community ...
(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 ...
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 ...
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 ...