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News and updates about Lithuania

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.

Lithuania pres. honors Jews who rescued books during Holocaust

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.

'Our relations are going to become even stronger'

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.

'We stand with Israel in stemming Iranian threat'

Lithuanian MP’s anti-Israel post slammed as antisemitic

Vilnius prosecutor's office investigating lawmaker for antisemitism and the spread of hate speech.

Lithuanian MP’s anti-Israel post slammed as antisemitic

Lithuania marks Day of Rescuers of Lithuanian Jews for first time

Official commemoration ceremony honors 1,785 Lithuanians who rescued Jews during the Holocaust.

Lithuania marks Day of Rescuers of Lithuanian Jews for 1st time

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.

Grigory Kanovich, award-wining author, dies at 93

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.

Lithuania passes new law on Holocaust restitution

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.

Allocate over $38m for Holocaust survivors and their heirs

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.

Russian TV star flees to Lithuania using Israeli passport

Jewish grave markers removed from Vilnius church steps

Jewish headstones found during renovation of Lithuanian church steps moved to city's old Jewish cemetery.

Jewish grave markers removed from Vilnius church steps

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.

Netflix films scene in 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 Holocaust memorial vandalized

Lithuanian Jewish community holds fifth World Litvak Congress

Even in Vilnius will bring together Lithuanian Jewish community and Litvaks from around the world.

Lithuanian Jewish community holds fifth World Litvak Congress

Lithuanian city names cultural center after Jewish philosopher

Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas is honored in a Lithuania still grappling with the Nazi era.

Lithuanian city names cultural center after Jewish philosopher

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.

Chinese aggression: Europe raises the white flag

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.

Lithuania halts bike path construction near Holocaust mass grave

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.

Lithuania urges local authorities to mark Jewish massacre sites

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.

Vilnius Jewish cemetery defaced with swastika on Rosh Hashanah

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.

Ark and bimah of Great Synagogue of Vilnius unearthed

Lithuanian government shelves plans to build on cemetery

Lithuania abandons plan to build conference center atop former Jewish cemetery.

Lithuanian government shelves plans to build on 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.

German troops sent home from Lithuania after charges of racism

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.

Appointment of new Lithuanian Genocide Center head criticized

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.

Lithuanian WWII researcher fired for "whitewashing" Nazi

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.

MyHeritage Publishes Millions of Jewish Lithuanian Records

Construction documented at mass Jewish grave in Lithuania

Construction was documented near a mass grave of Jewish Lithuanian Holocaust victims on privately owned land.

Construction documented at mass Jewish grave in Lithuania

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.

Lithuanian lawmaker quits committee after anti-Semitic comments

'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.

'No shortage of Holocaust perpetrators among Jews'

Activist who protested glorification of Holocaust collaborators to be deported

Lithuanian police holding activist who protested glorification of alleged Holocaust perpetrators.

Lithuania: Police hold activist ahead of deportation

Jewish group slams top genocide museum appointment

Alleged Holocaust distorter named top adviser to Lithuania genocide museum.

Jewish group slams top genocide museum appointment

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 Jews slam Putin for 'falsifying' history

Lithuanian nationalist accused of murdering Jews touted as hero

In Lithuania, lawmakers want to dedicate 2021 to honoring an alleged perpetrator of Holocaust pogrom.

Lithuanian accused of torturing Jews touted as hero

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.

Lithuania capital turns Italian as virus stops travel

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.

Lithuania: Chairs with fake money put on former Jewish cemetery

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.'

300th birthday of Vilna Gaon ceremony despite coronavirus

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 proposes controversial Holocaust law

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.

Lithuania drafts bill exonerating itself from Holocaust crimes

New play confronts Lithuanian complicity during Holocaust

Lithuanian state theater stages controversial play on Holocaust complicity.

New play confronts Lithuanian complicity during Holocaust

Symbol recently hijacked by neo-Nazis placed on Jewish coin

Lithuania places popular far-right symbol on coin celebrating Jewish heritage.

Symbol recently hijacked by neo-Nazis placed on Jewish coin

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.’

Lithuania’s Holocaust record ‘open wound,’ Israeli envoy says

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

Vilnius gets first yeshiva since World War II