The Lost Shtetl Museum in Lithuania is significant because it reflects international cooperation and interest.

In 1941, Jacob Gens was given an unthinkable task: deciding which Jewish people would be turned over to the Germans. Gens, ...

Lithuania presents itself as a state that has learned from history. It hosts panels on inclusion, designates memorial days for Jewish and Roma victims, and speaks fluently about multicultural repair.

The tragedy is not that Lithuania cannot tell the truth. It is that it can, but cannot survive as presently constituted if it ...

A Jewish group is outraged by Lithuania’s plans to convert a sports complex into a convention center at the site of a historic Jewish cemetery, reversing decades of advocacy to commemorate the ...

Lithuania’s outgoing chancellor agreed in principle to a lump sum transfer $47 million to the country’s Jewish community as compensation for lost Holocaust-era property. Chancellor Deividas Matulionis ...

NEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / August 1, 2025 / The Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation (AJCF), the nonprofit dedicated to harnessing the lessons learned from the Holocaust to combat hatred and ...

The World Jewish Congress-supported Thrive Project initiative earlier this week convened Baltic and Nordic Jewish community ...

An international research team has located a tunnel in Lithuania used by Jewish prisoners to escape Nazis during World War II, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Wednesday. The team from ...

The “In My Pocket” initiative, an innovative Holocaust education programme developed in Australia, has now extended to Lithuania. Third-grade pupils at the Sholom Aleichem ORT School in Vilnius ...

Jewish leaders in Lithuania announced Tuesday they were temporarily closing the Vilnius Synagogue and the community's headquarters due to threats, citing an "atmosphere of rising tension". The move ...