holocaust in lithuania

Nazi-hunter Efraim Zuroff saying Kadish, a mourning prayer, for Holocaust victims near Kaunas, Lithuania on Feb. 15, 2015. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Lithuania’s ruling party drafting bill exonerating nation from Holocaust crimes

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum says local police worked in unison with the Germans in murdering more than 95 percent of the country’s Jews.

Actors performing the play "Our People" at the Juozas Miltinis Drama Theater in Panevėžys, Lithuania on Nov. 24, 2019. (Arvydo Gudo)

Lithuanian state theater stages controversial play on Holocaust complicity

Nazi hunter and commemoration activist Efraim Zuroff called the production of “Our People” near Vilnius “major progress” toward facing the country’s history.

Lithuania’s Holocaust record is an ‘open wound,’ Israeli envoy tells history teachers in Vilnius

The unusual reference by an Israeli ambassador opened an educational program tailored for countries where Nazi collaborators are glorified.

The interior of the Choral Synagogue in Vilnius, Lithuania (Wikimedia Commons)

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Vilnius, a hub of Torah study destroyed by Nazis, to get new yeshiva

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The only functioning synagogue in Lithuania’s capital shuts down over security concerns

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Lithuania’s capital votes to rename street honoring anti-Semitic Nazi collaborator

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Lithuanian town honors late chaplain of Holocaust-era death squad

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Lawyer smashes plaque honoring Nazi collaborator in Lithuania

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Lithuania’s genocide studies center engages in Holocaust denial, local Jews say

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Lithuanian court rejects lawsuit against state honors for Nazi collaborator

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