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During World War Two, Nazi Germany's submarines would regularly attack Allied forces. In response, the Allies formed special brigades to monitor German submarines. One of these brigades included a serviceman named Zenonas Lukošius, a Lithuanian expatriate. He has become a hero of WWII.
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.
Over 100 schools and other educational institutions in Lithuania will on Wednesday take part in the civil initiative Memory Road to commemorate the large Jewish communities annihilated during the Holocaust.
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Tuesday awarded 47 people with Life Saving Crosses for saving Jews from the Nazis during World War Two. The majority of them were awarded posthumously.
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė will on Tuesday, the eve of the National Memorial Day for the Genocide Victims of the Lithuanian Jews, award 47 people who saved Jewish people from the Nazis during World War Two.
Lithuania-delegated EU Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis says, in comment on Brussels' proposal for European countries to share the refugee burden, that Lithuanians should remember their own emigrants who left for the West at the end of World War Two.
Lithuania's second-largest city Kaunas will Friday pay tribute to the memory of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara who issued visas to rescue thousands of Jews during World War Two.
City authorities recently removed four groups of Soviet-era statues from the Green Bridge in central Vilnius. Columnist Ramūnas Bogdanas argues that it was a move in the information war that Russia has launched against the West, including Lithuania. The retaliation that followed targeted crucial mom...
Mine neutralization units of the Lithuanian Army are carrying out an operation in a swimming area in Totoriškių Lake near Trakai some 30km west of the Lithuanian capital Vilnius.
Most of the time history can’t be put to bed even though agreements to end wars have been concluded, victors have drawn new boundary lines, promises made, but they soon get either forgotten or swept under the rug, as if they weren’t there. The story of the northern part of former East Prussia (now k...
Members of the Committee for the Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries in Europe are to come to Lithuania and visit the mass grave in Lithuania's northern city of Šiauliai, recently discovered during road construction work, the head of the Jewish Community of Lithuania said on Tuesday.
The authorities in Lithuania's northern city of Šiauliai have decided against excavating remains from a recently discovered World War Two mass burial site due to concerns from the Jewish community.
Human remains from a mass burial site dating back to WWII, recently discovered in Lithuania's northern city of Šiauliai during road construction works, will be excavated, a commission at the local municipality decided at its Monday meeting.
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.
Lithuania is in a perfect position to irritate Russia enough to force Moscow out its current misinformation offensive into the defensive, says J. Michael Waller, an American expert on information warfare. In an interview with DELFI, he shares some tips how even a country as small as Lithuania could ...
As Russia marks the victory over Nazi Germany in WWII, several thousand people, mainly Russian-speakers, gathered at Antakalnis Cemetery in Vilnius to pay tribute to WWII victims and surviving war veterans.
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.
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Friday paid tribute to victims of WWII at Paneriai Memorial, stressing the need to preserve peace today.
Lithuania marks the end of World War Two on Friday, with the country's president, prime minister and speaker of the Seimas attending commemorative events.
On 8 May, Lithuania is joining Europe in commemorating victory over Nazism. Russia celebrates its own Victory Day on 9 May. The Germans signed the instrument of surrender in Reims, France, on 7 May 1945. It was to come into effect at 11 PM on 8 May.
