Kaunas

Alleged Holocaust distorter named top adviser to Lithuania genocide museum

Vidmantas Valyušaitis recently defended a nationalist whom witnesses placed at the scene of a pogrom.

By Cnaan Liphshiz August 27, 2020 9:53 am

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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

According to one account, Juozas Luksa-Daumantas decapitated a rabbi during the 1941 Lietukis Garage massacre in Kaunas.

June 29, 2020 4:13 pm

Jan Zwartendijk

Dutch diplomat was punished for saving Jews in the Holocaust, new book reveals

Jan Zwartendijk was given a dressing down by a top official at the Foreign Ministry, which also blocked a royal recognition of his actions.

October 9, 2018 8:12 am

Lithuanian troops train at former concentration camp where 5,000 Jews are buried

By Cnaan Liphshiz August 31, 2017 6:11 am

Mystery pre-Holocaust photo trove turns out to be of family of US scholars

By Uriel Heilman May 3, 2016 12:41 pm

Lithuanian fascists march near execution site of 10,000 Jews

February 17, 2015 6:00 am

Jewish Women, Liberated from German Camp, Return to Their Homes in Vilna

Description of Liquidation of Kaunas Ghetto Written by One of Victims is Unearthed

September 27, 1944 4:00 am

Latvian Partisans Rescue 600 Jews; 4,000 Jews Held in Baltic Coastal Town

Moscow Jewish Committee Issues Report on Nazi Extermination of Jews in Kaunas

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