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Erika Fuks

Lietuva netolimoje ateityje gali pasiekti labai daug, jei vadovausis tinkamu pavyzdžiu. Apie tai, kokias galimybes mato čia pasakojo Vilniuje viešėjęs Lietuvos žydo palikuonis, Jungtinės Karalystės Karališkosios menų draugijos už pasiekimus įvertintas muzikos ir mobiliųjų pramogų industrijos verslin...

Gary S Eisenberg | the Lithuania Tribune

As a Cape Town born Jew, my life has come full circle. Although I was born after his death, my zeida, Rabbi Shimon Ze’ev Aysenberg, played an indelible influence in my life. My father, Isaac Eisenberg, born in a stable in Mogilov, Belarus, in 1922, a medical doctor and writer, spent his life interpr...

Louis Garrick | the Lithuania Tribune

President Dalia Grybauskaitė yesterday awarded the Life Saving Cross to forty-six Lithuanian citizens who risked danger to save Jews from probable death in Nazi-occupied Lithuania during World War II. Of the forty-six, only two were still alive to receive the award in person.

Louis Garrick | the Lithuania Tribune

Kaunas —Saturday marked the opening of a weeklong public program at the New Šančiai Synagogue in Kaunas, Lithuania, commemorating of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the beginning of the Holocaust in Lithuania. Organised by the International Centre for Litvak Photography, or IC4LP, the program is th...

Inna Rogatchi

August 29th, 2016, has become truly important day for Lithuanian people, for Israel, and for all of us who does not know the past term for Holocaust. On that day, a small Lithuanian town of Moletai has become a scene of tangible and penetrating lesson on the Shoah. It was a rare event - unpretending...

the Lithuania Tribune, DELFI

Britain's new Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has ancestral ties with Lithuania. The controversial politician's great grandfather was a Litvak born in Žemaičių Kalvarija, the famous American palaeographer Elias Avery Lowe (Loew). To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking her...

the Lithuania Tribune

The Rokiškis Regional Museum and the US-based non-profit organization Remembering Litvaks, have established a new research award, the volunteer Private Ruvin Bun award, to encourage a better understanding of the contribution of ethnic minorities to the founding of an independent Lithuanian state.