History

No one will be prosecuted from Lithuanian Holocaust perpetrators list, says Lithuanian prosecutor

Lithuania's Prosecutor General's Office has analysed a list of some 2,000 people suspected of involvement in the Holocaust , but will not be pursuing...

The Tatars: 700 years of influence on Lithuania’s history, language and food

The Lithuanian Tatar community is the oldest ethnic group living in Lithuania, having settled in the country when it was the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in...

Kaliningrad or Karaliaučius: A land fought over for centuries

Five years ago, I wrote about the first time I saw the lands of Kaliningrad , known as the Karaliaučius region in Lithuanian. My first impression was...

Chronicle of pre-war Litvak life: Vilnius Jewish archive made available online

Lithuanian specialists have digitized more than 80,000 pages of documents from a pre-war Jewish research institute in order to make them available online.

'Vikings of the land' - Lithuania's tribes were conquerors and victims

Historical sources document medieval Lithuanian tribes to have been not just victims of crusader attacks but expansionists and pillagers in their own right,...

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