Vilnius presents itself as a capital of layered history. In practice, it has chosen which layers may remain visible. The ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

It has become the Baltic state’s largest major museum dedicated to the history of Lithuanian Jewry and Shoah education ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...