Holocaust

The victims of the Nazi genocide during World War II are honoured on 27 January, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, in Lithuania and around the world, commemorating the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp 80 years ago.

President Gitanas Nausėda has called for seeking justice in everyday actions to honour the memory of Holocaust victims as the world marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday.

Israel’s Minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli, on a visit to Lithuania, says the antisemitic statements of MP Remigijus Žemaitaitis are inconceivable, and is pleased that the Seimas has reacted clearly and unequivocally.

Visi siaubo filmai gąsdina ir baugina – tokia jų paskirtis, tačiau priemonės, kuriomis išprovokuojamos tokios reakcijos nebūtinai vienodos: vieni gali šokiruoti kruvinomis smurto scenomis, kiti – kelti nerimą, dar kiti – slegiančią įtampą.

Tinklaraštyje viesulas22.blogspot.com pasirodė įrašas, kuriame melagingai teigiama, kad vykdomas „baltųjų genocidas“. Tačiau tam pasitelkiama interpretacija, kuri neatitinka genocido sąvokos apibrėžimo.

Vilnius police confirmed on Monday a fresh attack on the Holocaust memorial complex in the Lithuanian capital's Paneriai suburb.

Lithuanian families who hid Jews during the Nazi occupation were honored as Righteous Among the Nations in Lithuania's second-largest city of Kaunas on Thursday at a conference dedicated to Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust during World War Two.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda has decided not to go to a major Holocaust commutation event in Jerusalem, but will pay homage to the Jewish victims in Auschwitz, in Poland, next Monday, his office said on Tuesday.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said one can only imagine how many generations the country and the world lost due to the Holocaust as he visited the Litvak Memorial Garden in the northwestern district of Plunge.

A monument to Jew savers is planned to be built in Vilnius over the next couple of years.

From Facebook to Donald Trump's impeachment. American author Timothy David Snyder who specializes in the history of Central and Eastern Europe and the Holocaust has his strong opinion on every topic. According to him, looking to the past we can predict what is waiting in the future.

Avner Shalev, chairman of the Jerusalem-based Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, says he would like information for the memorial's visitors, and also other resources, to be available in the Lithuanian language as well.

The European Parliament called on the European Commission on Thursday to counter Russia's attempts to whitewash crimes committed by the Soviet totalitarian regime.

Several dozen Lithuanian lawmakers registered an initiative last week to declare 2020 the year of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who saved thousands of Lithuanian Jews from the Holocaust during World War Two.

Jan Zwartendijk, the director of Philips in Lithuania and the honorary consul for the Netherlands signed visas for Curaçao to save the lives of more than 2000 Jews from the Holocaust during WW2.

Several hundred people rallied in Vilnius on Wednesday to protest against the city administration's decisions to remove commemorations to two officials who were allegedly involved in the Holocaust during World War Two.

The Kaunas Ghetto was burned in July 1944. Around 5000 people were transferred to concentration camps, and only a few hundred managed to escape.

In 1932, Arbit Blatas opened the first private gallery in the Baltics in Kaunas. On May 11, the exhibition of the world-recognised Litvak artist will be opened in his hometown.

On 7 May, a representative of the Russian Embassy was summoned to Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where a protest was expressed over the officially announced false statement of the Russian Embassy in the U.S. about the Lithuanian partisan commander Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas after a monume...

David Irving, a British historian convicted of denying the Holocaust, has been banned from entering Lithuania.