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During the celebrations of Šeduva Days on 27 June, Šeduva Jewish Memorial Fund made a significant donation to the local community in the form of a new fully equipped 4x4 Ford Transit ambulance car which was delivered to the local ambulance station.

The massacre of Jews at the Lietūkis garage 74 years ago was one of the most brutal not only in Lithuania but also Europe, Gercas Zakas, the leader of the Jewish community in Lithuania's second-largest city of Kaunas, said during a commemoration ceremony on Friday.

An electric substation in Vilnius, built during the Soviet times using Jewish tombstones, will be dismantled next year, the Lithuanian capital's mayor says.

Six people were presented with the Beigel Awards for Tolerance, traditional awards presented by the Jewish Community of Lithuania, for promoting tolerance in the country.

Digitalization of the unique archives about lives of Jews in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust accumulated by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in Vilnius before World War II should start in New York in the coming months.

On Sunday evening, the Lithuanian Foreign Minister, Linas Linkevičius, awarded in Los Angeles the diplomatic start to Dr. Richard Maullin.

More than two years of work on the restoration and preservation of Jewish heritage in Šeduva were marked in a private ceremony at the town’s recently restored Jewish cemetery (Žvejų gatvė). More than 400 tombstones have been identified and more than 1,300 have been either painstakingly restored or p...

With a thrust from the eurozone, affordable air-fares on the route Vilnius-Tel Aviv and just generally better Israeli-Lithuanian relations, tourist flows between the two countries have peaked lately.

At the 5th Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism held in Jerusalem on 12-14 May, Lithuanian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mantvydas Bekešius reviewed Lithuania's accomplishments in liquidating consequences of the Holocaust and combating the manifestations of anti-Semitism, especially in cybe...

Lithuania's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mantvydas Bekešius has paid a working visit to Tel Aviv, Israel. The minister invited representatives of Jewish organisations to actively participate in the World Lithuanian Economic Forum (PLEF) which will take place in Israel in October.

Giedrius Sakalauskas, a resident of Vilnius, was taking a walk with his son on Sunday when he made a disturbing discovery. An electric substation on Olandų Street that seemed to be built out of Jewish tombstones.

Juliana Zarchi, the daughter of a German mother and a Jewish father, who survived Nazi and Soviet repressions in Lithuania, says her fears are rekindled again as she sees re-emerging fascination with cruelty, despite horrible lessons of the twentieth century.

Representatives of the Lithuanian government and the Lithuanian Jewish Community on Thursday agreed on an action plan to preserve Jewish architectural heritage and cemeteries in Lithuania as well as raise awareness about Jewish history.

This coming May, 800 delegates from over 51 countries will travel to Jerusalem not to enjoy the sunny Israeli weather but rather to discuss the prolonged eclipse that has clouded the streets of Europe in growing intensity in recent times.

At the meeting with representatives of Jewish organisations on 4 May in New York, Lithuanian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mantvydas Bekešius presented Lithuania's initiatives related to educating people about the history of Lithuanian and Jewish peoples, their cultural experience and the Holoc...

Vilijampolė, Kaunas, winter. The project "Being a Jew". A group of thirty teachers led by a Jewish guide are standing in the former Kaunas ghetto. Houses, garages, storage spaces, wood piles where, during the war, thousands of Jews were herded like animals by the Nazis, where Jewish children played,...

Tomas Venclova, a prominent Lithuanian author, poet, translator and professor of literature at Yale University, delivered the following remarks at a conference on Holocaust education held at Vilnius City Hall on April 17, 2015, the final event in the Being a Jew project.

A conference on Holocaust education was held at Vilnius city hall on 17 April. The conference was the final event in the "Being a Jew" project's series of events this year marking Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah) in Lithuania was unique this year. Over 700 youngsters from Vilnius, together with the Lithuanian Jewish community, former ghetto prisoners and Holocaust survivors took part in the traditional March of the Living in Ponar (Paneriai).

The Embassy of the State of Israel, together with the Lithuanian Jewish community and the Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum, on a Day of remembrance of the Holocaust, this year marked on 16 April, awarded the Righteous Among the Nations. The State of Israel awarded six Lithuanian families, which in spi...