Holocaust

Over €125,000 euros have been raised in a charity concert organized by the Lithuanian Jewish Community and the Order of Malta for non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust in Lithuania.

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.

The award-winning founder and director of the International Centre for Litvak Photography Richard Schofield recently commissioned a piece of music to be performed as part of the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the Kaunas Ghetto.

Members of Lithuania's Roma community who perished during World War Two should have a day of commemoration, say public organizations. They add that the group has been unduly erased from Lithuania's historic memory.

Lithuania's Prosecutor General's Office said Thursday it would investigate a list of about 2,000 Lithuanians who may have taken part in the killing of Jews in Lithuania during World War Two. The list was compiled by the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre in Lithuania.

Latvia's parliament has approved a new law that will see properties confiscated from Jews during World War II to be returned to the country's Jewish community.

A posthumous award of military rank to a man suspected of involvement in the Holocaust has caught attention of the Lithuanian parliament speaker who has asked for explanation from the president and the defence minister.

The living keep silencing the dead, says Jewish-Lithuanian poet and author Sergey Kanovich.

An estimated 300 ultra-nationalists marched in Kaunas on Independence Day chanting anti-refugee slogans and celebrating what Jewish groups say are Nazi-collaborators who were leading Lithuanian figures in the interwar period.

Businessman Valdas Balčiūnas has been named the 2015 Person of Tolerance in Lithuania, the public organization “Sugihara Foundation - Diplomats for Life” told BNS on Saturday.

The Lithuanian Jewish community would like to see a monument built in Vilnius to people who were saving Jews during World War Two.

The leader of the Jewish Community of Lithuania, Faina Kukliansky, says that the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre should submit the list of Holocaust perpetrators to prosecutors for scrutiny.

The Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania (LGGRTC) has announced that it may publish a list of individuals who had worked in police institutions during the Nazi occupation of Europe. This would amount to a list of individuals who may have contributed to the Holocaust in Lithuania, tho...

Hundreds of ordinary Lithuanians who saved Jews are honoured in Israel

Author Rūta Vanagaitė recently presented a book, "Our Own", about the Holocaust in Lithuania. Although historians have been researching the topic for years, the Lithuanian society has yet to realize and acknowledge the part their compatriots, ordinary Lithuanians, played in the mass killings of Jews...

Talking about the massacre of Jews in Lithuania in 1941 is still taboo 75 years later, according to the Lithuanian author of a new book about the events.

Ludo Segers talks to the Dutch ambassador about taking over the presidency of the European council, on why David Cameron’s speech on getting a new deal for Britain with the EU was not anti-European, on how the Netherlands security interests are intrinsically intertwined with those of Lithuania and t...

Over the last year, the Lithuanian government began focusing more on preserving Jewish heritage and grave sites, according to Faina Kukliansky, the chair of the Jewish Community of Lithuania.

On 14 October, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius attended the première of the film Persona Non Grata about a Japanese ambassador in Lithuania who issued visas to Jews during World War Two, saving thousands of people from death.

The Lithuanian town of Šeduva, Radviliškis District, unveiled a monument to all the Jewish residents who used to live in the town, BNS reports.