Holocaust

Tuesday marked the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Tanks of the First Ukrainian Front broke through the enclosures 70 years ago.

On 27 January 2015, Linas Linkevičius, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, together with the delegation led by the President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė attended the ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the camp’s liberation in Auschwitz, Poland.

On Tuesday, an International Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony took place in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. The International Holocaust Remembrance Day coincided this year with the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Lithuanian Ambassador to ...

Second-degree state pensions were granted to 98 Lithuanian residents who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, the Social Security and Labour Ministry said.

Europe must learn its history lessons and prevent the rise of a new aggressor whom some people don’t want to see, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Tuesday as the world marks the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

What a silly title, I thought after I wrote it. There is no such thing in Lithuania. There was a Holocaust, but there is no museum. It should have been here twenty-five years ago, but it’s still not here. A kind of anniversary. Cynical and macabre. More cynical than the long decades when the word “H...

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė is going to Warsaw on Tuesday to attend a memorial day of Holocaust victims at the Auschwitz concentration camp together with other state leaders and representatives of international organizations.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė will attend Holocaust remembrance events in Poland, her press service told BNS on Thursday.

On 9 January, Lithuania's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mantvydas Bekešius visited Brussels, where he met with Rabbi Menachem Margolin, director of the European Jewish Association, and Henri Gutman, president of the Jewish Laic Community Centre, Lithuania's MFA said.

We offer you a recent interview with Grigory Kanovich who several weeks won the National Prize of Lithuania for Art and Culture and was named an Honorary Citizen of his hometown, Jonava.

Colloquium Vilnense invites you to a session at Vilnius University on the survival of Lithuanian Jews in the GULag and their way to Displaced Persons Camps after the end of the war. Violeta Davoliūtė (Vilnius) and Markus Nesselrodt (Berlin) will present their ongoing research.

The Jewish remains found in a mass grave at the 7th Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania's second-largest city, have been reburied in the place they had been found.

Declassified US records show that American intelligence agencies recruited former Nazis, including a Lithuanian collaborator, to spy on the communist bloc countries during the Cold War, the BBC reports.

On Monday, 27 October, the bestselling author, historian and Yale professor Timothy Snyder was honoured with the Lithuanian Diplomacy Star during a ceremony at the Lithuanian Embassy in Washington, DC.

Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, was chosen by the BBC for The Eichmann Show, starring British film and TV star Martin Freeman. The film tells a story about the trial of one most notorious figures of the Holocaust. The 90-minute drama focuses on the broadcast of the trial of Adolf Eichmann, chief ...

Some fifty people gathered in the forest at midday on Sunday at the mass grave at Poligón, outside Švenčioneliai (Yiddish: Svintsyánke), in northeastern Lithuania, where around 8,000 Jews were murdered on 7 and 8 October 1941 after more than a week of barbaric incarceration and humiliation.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius started his visit to the US capital on 6 October with a busy schedule.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius and his delegation are visiting the United States of America (Washington D.C., Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, and Chicago) on 5-13 October.

Rescuers of Jews were awarded with certificates testifying their legal status as participants of freedom fights. The ceremony on Thursday included words of gratitude and critical remarks to the government for delays.

The Jewish remains found at the VII Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania's second-largest city, will be reburied in the place they were found later this month.