holocaust in lithuania

Emmanuel Levinas Center, in Kaunas, Lithuania

Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas is honored in a Lithuania still grappling with the Nazi era

The opening in Kaunas of a cultural center named for a famous Jew coincided with rows over how to talk about his family’s killers.

By Cnaan Liphshiz January 19, 2022 4:37 pm

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Following outcry, Lithuanian city halts construction of bike path near Holocaust mass grave

Photos of the project in Šiauliai show two trails on either side of a monument to the victims of the genocide.

November 16, 2021 2:14 pm

Mikvahs unearthed at Vilnius synagogue destroyed by Nazis

A yad, a metal object used for public readings of the Torah, also was unearthed in the Lithuanian capital.

August 26, 2021 3:29 pm

Yitzhak Arad, right, celebrates Hanukkah on his 90th birthday in Tel Aviv on Dec. 29, 2016. (Courtesy of the Association of Jews from Vilna and the Vicinity in Israel)

Yitzhak Arad, partisan who led Israel’s Holocaust museum for decades, dies at 95

By Cnaan Liphshiz May 7, 2021 9:33 am

An excavator digs near a mass grave of Jews in Veliucionys, Lithuania in February 2021. (Ruta Vanagaite)

Digging documented near privately owned mass grave of Jews in Lithuania

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 25, 2021 10:04 am

Valdas Rakutis walks into the Seimas building in Vilnius, Lithuania on Nov. 24, 2020. (Wikimedia Commons/Sofija Vytautaitė)

Lithuanian lawmaker who blamed Jews for Holocaust quits parliament’s memorial commission

By Cnaan Liphshiz January 31, 2021 3:49 pm

Valdas Rakutis walks into the Seimas building in Vilnius, Lithuania on Nov. 24, 2020. (Wikimedia Commons/Sofija Vytautaitė)

In Holocaust memorial day speech, Lithuanian lawmaker says Jews and communists share blame

By Cnaan Liphshiz January 27, 2021 5:53 pm

Alleged Holocaust distorter named top adviser to Lithuania genocide museum

By Cnaan Liphshiz August 27, 2020 9:53 am

A memorial at site of Lietukis Garage massacre of Jewish Men in Kaunas, Lithuania (Flickr/Adam Jones)

In Lithuania, lawmakers want to dedicate 2021 to honoring an alleged perpetrator of Holocaust pogrom

By Cnaan Liphshiz June 29, 2020 4:13 pm

Following Poland’s lead, Lithuania proposes a controversial Holocaust law

By Cnaan Liphshiz January 14, 2020 2:48 pm

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