Lithuanian jews

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

The tool also has the potential to support the descendants of Jews who were persecuted during the Holocaust as they prepare materials to confirm their eligibility for repatriation or citizenship.

The Malisoff family sits for a photo in 1907. Pavel Malisoff and his wife Michla sit in the center.
The old Jewish cemetery in Vilnius, circa 1922

US antisemitism envoy pressures Lithuania to stop construction over Vilnius Jewish cemetery

Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) people in Tel Aviv in June.

Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community feels misunderstood. Here’s why - opinion

THE FORMER Romm Widow printing house, where the famed Vilna Shas edition of the Talmud was printed.

Exploring Vilnius: the Jerusalem of Lithuania and its Jewish past


Volozhin: Rabbis and Rebels

The Jerusalem Post

Famous Holocaust escape tunnel located in Lithuania using hi-tech

Antiquities Authority uses predictive scanning to find shaft dug by ‘Corpse Unit’ at Ponary Massacre site near Vilnius

A scan of the site using Electrical Resistivity Tomography

There's something about Mary

The Jerusalem Post

Man with a mission: The tireless Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff

Zuroff has worn his heart on his sleeve for almost 40 years, ruffling feathers in the highest places, determinedly taking on governments and figures of authority.

Efraim Zuroff

Lithuanian town plans to name street after priest who organized gang that murdered Jews

Naming flap exposes issues with dealing with Holocaust memory.

JONAS ZVINYS

Wiesenthal Center protests Lithuanian neo-Nazi march

The annual march, which was timed to coincide with the anniversary of the Baltic state’s independence from Russia in 1918, was smaller than that of previous years.

Efraim Zuroff

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