Lithuanian jews

Lithuania ruling party to stay in coalition with political ally convicted of hatred against Jews

The founder of the populist Nemunas Dawn party, Remigijus Zemaitaitis, was fined 5,000 euros ($5,800) last week for a series of social media posts against Jews and downplaying the Holocaust.

Dawn of Nemunas Party leader Remigijus Zemaitaitis attends a press conference after general election in Vilnius, Lithuania October 28, 2024.
March of the Living from Vilnius to Ponary

Marching to Ponary: Remembering the Lithuanian Jewish Community

 Vilnius, Lithuania

Vilna Jewish leadership betray their heritage - opinion

The Vilnius Palace of Concerts and Sports.

Lithuania scraps planning by Jewish groups to convert sports complex into Jewish heritage site


Lithuania must confront its past at Kaunas march

Until now, the glorification of the Lithuanian heroes who had played a role in Holocaust crimes was only one of several themes featured at the marches.

Lithuania skyline

Lithuanian Jews call for government to publish list of Nazi collaborators

The Genocide Center has given the government a list containing 2,055 names of supposed perpetrators but Vilnius neither published it nor made any attempt to investigate the people concerned.

A man walks past a sign at a commemoration place during the March of the Living to honor Holocaust victims in Paneriai near Vilnius, Lithuania

Lithuania pledges to publish names of 1,000 suspected Holocaust perpetrators

State museum on genocide says will try to publish book this year naming local Nazi collaborators.

Lithuanian collaborators (with white armbands) arresting Jews in July 1941

More Than the Sum of Our Days

The Jerusalem Post

Meet the Ambassador: An ambassador at home in Israel

Lithuanian envoy Edminas Bagdonas marks his year representing his country in Israel by organizing visits from his prime minister and president.

LITHUANIAN AMBASSADOR Edminas Bagdonas

Speakers at anti-Semitism confab accused of Holocaust distortion

“As far as combatting anti-Semitism, local institutions can be characterized as totally worthless in terms of fulfilling their ostensible function in Lithuanian society.”

The old Jewish cemetery in Vilnius, circa 1922

Israeli researcher to attend opening of Gandhi-Kallenbach ‘monument of friendship’ in Lithuania

Statues of Gandhi and Kallenbach have been placed near a historic synagogue on a river bank in the small western town of Rusne, near the Russian border.

THE STATUES of Mahatma Gandhi and Hermann Kallenbach due to be unveiled on October 2

Lithuania posthumously strips Nazi collaborator of honors

Pranas Končius-Adomas is stripped of the Order of the Cross of Vytis "in response to an appeal by the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania.”

A man walks past a sign at a commemoration place during the March of the Living to honor Holocaust victims in Paneriai near Vilnius, Lithuania

Vilnius announces plan to buy land parcel in Jewish graveyard

Jewish groups slam statement issued over Rosh Hashana.

The old Jewish cemetery in Vilnius, circa 1922

Lithuanian PM to Post: Vilnius one of Israel’s ‘strongest partners’ in EU

Butkevicius says ‘no equation’ between Holocaust and Soviet-era crimes and repression.

Algirdas Butkevičius