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


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

Lithuania and the rewriting of history

The Lithuanian government ties to minimize the highly significant role of local Nazi collaborators in Holocaust crimes.

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

Cemetery controversy ‘Much Ado about Nothing,’ say Lithuanian Jewish leaders

The Lithuanian organized Jewish community minimized the concerns of opponents of the plan, calling it the “best way to honor the memory of the dead."

Vilnius, Lithuania

Rabbinic delegation asks Lithuania to cancel planned conference center in Vilna cemetery

The government plan to develop the complex in the middle of the ancient Snipiskes Cemetery in Vilnius has aroused spirited opposition.

Vilnius, Lithuania

Lithuanian PM: Sports complex in Jewish cemetery to be built with ‘proper respect'

Wiesenthal Center’s Zuroff: It’s a case of cover-up in the desecration of the ancient facility.

Vilnius, Lithuania