Lithuania

Lithuanian students retrace Holocaust history on memorial day, confront country's role in massacres

Around 600 non-Jewish Lithuanian students participated in the March of the Living commemorations held in Vilnius and Ponary, Lithuania, where 70,000 people were killed during the Holocaust.

Lithuanian teenagers marched to sites where Jews from their towns were murdered during the Holocaust.
French and Lithuanian soldiers fire French self-propelled Caesar Mk-I howitzer in Pabrade training area, Lithuania September 16, 2026.

Lithuania prepares evacuation plans as PM warns of growing Russian threats

Police officers of the "Military Gendarmerie" stand guard in an area near the village of Tarnawa-Kolonia, eastern Poland, 30 July 2026, where a flying object hit the ground and exploded in the early hours of the day, the fire service reported.

Russia hits truck near Polish border in latest strike near NATO

The Malisoff family sits for a photo in 1907. Pavel Malisoff and his wife Michla sit in the center.

How a new tool in Lithuania helps people read letters from their Jewish ancestors


NATO's Baltic States, Russia remove ambassadors as diplomatic relations downgraded

Estonia and Latvia have been among a group of NATO allies arguing strongly for Germany to provide Leopard battle tanks to boot Ukraine in fighting Russia.

NATO and Russian flags are seen through broken glass this illustration taken April 13, 2022.

Lithuania-Latvia gas pipeline hit by explosion, operator says

A gas pipeline connecting Lithuania and Latvia was hit by an explosion, no injuries have been reported as of yet.

 View towards Nord Stream 1 Baltic Sea pipeline and the transfer station of the Baltic Sea Pipeline Link in the industrial area of Lubmin, Germany, August 30, 2022.

Lithuania passes law allocating nearly $40 million for Holocaust survivors

The bill passed with an overwhelming, but not unanimous majority in the country with a checkered history in Holocaust remembrance.

 A view of the Lithuanian parliament and national library in Vilnius.

Israeli artist creates massive mural to celebrate 700 years of Vilnius


Kaunas, Lithuania: Culture celebration confronts Holocaust memory - opinion

For me, an invited Jewish journalist from Israel, most prominent in my mind is how this Lithuanian city would relate to both the multiple achievements of its Jewish community and its Holocaust memory

  KAUNAS VISTA: Liberty Avenue and the Church of St. Michael the Archangel.

Are neo-Nazi Russian groups planning attacks on NATO countries? - report

New developments suggest that the Kremlin may lose ties with far-right paramilitary organizations.

 NATO HEADS of states and governments look at a digital installation after posing for a photo during the NATO summit at the alliance’s headquarters in Brussels in June 2021.

Ukrainian-Israeli Evgeny Merman art exhibition shown in Riga

 The Israeli ambassador Sharon Rappaport-Palgi and the artist Evgeny Merman

Lithuanian farmer burns grain for heat, cheaper than burning wood

Since imports of wood products from Russia and its ally Belarus were banned due to sanctions, wood pellets used for heating have soared to 600 euros per ton.

 Lithuanian farmer Petras Vaitelis inspects his furnace filled with oat grains to heat his house in Azuolaiciai, Lithuania November 14, 2022.

120 years since birth of religious Zionism to be commemorated in Vilnius

The visit in Vilnius, which launched the 120-year anniversary, is part of a week-long mission of World Mizrachi to sites of Jewish history in Eastern Europe.

 World Mizrachi members visit Vilnius for the 120-year anniversary of the birth of the religious Zionist movement.

Experiencing the Jewish past, present in Vilnius, Riga - opinion

My experiences in Jewish Vilnius and Riga on the ground, although brief, gave me an extraordinary opportunity to discover meaningful aspects of Jewish life in both places.

 BOYS SELL newspapers in the Jewish quarter of Vilnius, prior to World War II. It’s part of the urban-art project ‘The Walls Remember.’ The image from the original photo was transferred to an exterior building wall within the Jewish quarter to showcase conspicuous vestiges of everyday life.