Lithuania president honors Jews who rescued rare books during Holocaust
In New York, Lithuania’s president honors those who saved Jewish artifacts during and after the Holocaust.
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Netanyahu meets Lithuanian PM: Our relations are going to become even stronger
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė discuss regional issues, especially the Iranian threat.
Lithuanian Prime Minister: We stand with Israel in stemming Iranian threat
Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė speaks at AJC Global Forum: We will continue pushing for more sanctions against Iran.
Lithuanian MP’s anti-Israel post slammed as antisemitic
Vilnius prosecutor's office investigating lawmaker for antisemitism and the spread of hate speech.
Lithuania marks Day of Rescuers of Lithuanian Jews for first time
Official commemoration ceremony honors 1,785 Lithuanians who rescued Jews during the Holocaust.
Grigory Kanovich, award-winning author who chronicled Lithuanian Jewry, dies at 93
Lithuanian-born Jew and award winning author who endeavored to tell the story of his people despite Soviet pressure, passes away.
Lithuania passes new law on Holocaust restitution
Good Will Compensation Law welcomed by American Jewish Committee as step toward justice for Lithuanian Holocaust survivors and heirs.
Lithuanian proposes allocating over $38m for Holocaust survivors and their heirs
'Proposal is an important step to providing a measure of justice to Lithuanian Holocaust survivors and their families,' organization says.
Russian TV star flees to Lithuania using Israeli passport
Ksenia Sobchak leaves Russia after her mansion searched by police as part of extortion case against her media director.
Jewish grave markers removed from Vilnius church steps
Jewish headstones found during renovation of Lithuanian church steps moved to city's old Jewish cemetery.
Netflix films scene in Lithuanian prison where Nazis jailed Jews
Season 4 of Netflix’s ‘Stranger Things’ filmed in a Lithuanian prison where Nazis jailed Jews.
Lithuanian Holocaust memorial vandalized
Memorial in Kretinga District Municipality honoring the lives of 320 Jews who were mass murdered at the site vandalized with swastika.
Lithuanian Jewish community holds fifth World Litvak Congress
Even in Vilnius will bring together Lithuanian Jewish community and Litvaks from around the world.
Lithuanian city names cultural center after Jewish philosopher
Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas is honored in a Lithuania still grappling with the Nazi era.
Chinese aggression: Europe raises the white flag
Little Lithuania is paying a steep price for keeping to its principles. Do not expect the EU to help. Perhaps the EU is over. Opinion.
Following outcry, Lithuanian city halts construction of bike path by Holocaust mass grave
Following outcry, Lithuanian city of Siauliai freezes construction of bike path near mass grave of Jewish Holocaust victims.
Lithuanian government urges local authorities to mark Jewish massacre sites
Parliamentary measure also asks municipalities to tend to Jewish cemeteries and name public spaces after righteous among the nations.
Vilnius Jewish cemetery defaced with swastika on Rosh Hashanah
Hate symbol was immediately removed from the Old Jewish Cemetery but shortly after was found again on the same sign.
Ark and bimah of Great Synagogue of Vilnius unearthed during archeological dig
International team working for the last several years has also uncovered the former 17th century synagogue's columns and other remains.
Lithuanian government shelves plans to build on cemetery
Lithuania abandons plan to build conference center atop former Jewish cemetery.
German troops sent home from Lithuania after charges of anti-Semitism and racism
German NATO troops in Lithuania as part of a NATO mission accused of hateful behaviour at a hotel party.
Appointment of new Lithuanian Genocide Center head criticized by WWII experts
Center has in past come under controversy by WWII experts who accuse it of bias on Lithuania's wartime record.
Lithuanian WWII government researcher fired for "whitewashing" Nazi collaborator
Head of Lithuania's genocide research center fired for whitewashing Nazi collaborator who deported 12,000 Jews to ghetto.
MyHeritage Publishes Millions of Historic Jewish Lithuanian Records
MyHeritage, the online genealogy platform, has published a trove of Lithuanian Jewish historical records stretching back to the late 1700s.
Construction documented at mass Jewish grave in Lithuania
Construction was documented near a mass grave of Jewish Lithuanian Holocaust victims on privately owned land.
Lithuanian lawmaker who blamed Jews for Holocaust quits parliament commission
Lithuanian lawmaker who suggested Jews share the blame for the Holocaust resigns as chair of the parliament’s historical memory commission.
'No shortage of Holocaust perpetrators among Jews,' lawmaker Valdas Rakutis says
In Holocaust memorial day speech, Lithuanian lawmaker Valdas Rakutis says Jews and communists share blame.
Activist who protested glorification of Holocaust collaborators to be deported
Lithuanian police holding activist who protested glorification of alleged Holocaust perpetrators.
Jewish group slams top genocide museum appointment
Alleged Holocaust distorter named top adviser to Lithuania genocide museum.
Lithuanian Jews slam Putin for 'falsifying' history
Lithuanian Jewish leaders accuse Russia's president of 'falsifying' history during his defense of USSR's annexation of Baltic states.
Lithuanian nationalist accused of murdering Jews touted as hero
In Lithuania, lawmakers want to dedicate 2021 to honoring an alleged perpetrator of Holocaust pogrom.
Roman Holiday: Lithuania capital turns Italian as virus stops travel
As citizens prefer staying put to international travel, Vilnius offers country-themed entertainment to perk up weekends.
Chairs with fake money placed atop former Jewish cemetery in Lithuania
Tussle over plan to build conference center on grounds of former Jewish cemetery leads to protest with chairs and fake money.
300th birthday of Vilna Gaon ceremony despite coronavirus
Lithuanian FM: 'Today near Vilna Gaon's grave I pay tribute to great Gaon, eternal symbol of history and culture of Lithuanian Jewry.'
Following Poland’s lead, Lithuania proposes a controversial Holocaust law
Lithuanian lawmaker pushing controversial bill which would declare that the country had no responsibility for the Holocaust.
Lithuania’s ruling party drafting bill exonerating nation from Holocaust crimes
Historian Efraim Zuroff slams bill as 'attempt to whitewash massive complicity' in murder of Jews.
New play confronts Lithuanian complicity during Holocaust
Lithuanian state theater stages controversial play on Holocaust complicity.
Symbol recently hijacked by neo-Nazis placed on Jewish coin
Lithuania places popular far-right symbol on coin celebrating Jewish heritage.
Lithuania’s Holocaust record ‘open wound,’ Israeli envoy says
At genocide seminar for teachers, Israeli envoy tells history teachers in Vilnius that country's Holocaust record is an ‘open wound.’
Vilnius gets first yeshiva since World War II
Lithuanian capital, once one of the most prominent centers of religious Jewish study that was later destroyed by the Nazis, gets new yeshiva
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