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People like anniversaries, and 75 years since the establishment of Kaunas Ghetto is a good opportunity to remember the history of Lithuania's Litvaks, says a British expat offering an original way of doing it.
Photo: International Centre for Litvak Photography
Photo: International Centre for Litvak Photography

In its short version, the story of Jews in Lithuania, or Litvaks, goes like this: Lithuania had been home to one of the biggest culturally thriving Jewish communities in Eastern Europe before World War Two, when the invasion of Nazi Germany unleashed the Holocaust, wiping out over 90% of the Jews with the unfortunate help of local collaborators.

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