Lithuania

Fania Brantsovsky, last living Vilna ghetto partisan resistance fighter, dies at 102

Remaining in Lithuania after the war, she became a keeper of the flame of the city’s once illustrious Yiddish culture.

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In a shift, Latvia and Lithuania are paying Holocaust survivors and heirs for their stolen property

The Lithuania program is open to applications only until Dec. 31.

Vilnius is celebrating its 700th anniversary. Lithuanian Jews are commemorating a darker one.

This year also marks the 80th anniversary of the liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto, once the heart of a thriving Jewish community.

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Lithuania proposes setting aside nearly $40M for Holocaust survivors and their heirs

Exhibit on Jonas Mekas at the Jewish Museum

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Historian accuses NY’s Jewish Museum of sanitizing filmmaker’s World War II record in new exhibit

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

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Mikvahs unearthed at Vilnius synagogue destroyed by Nazis

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Lithuania abandons plan to build conference center atop former Jewish cemetery

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

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

Both sides of a commemorative 10 euro coin celebrating the 300th birthday of the Vilna Gaon in Lithuania. (Courtesy of the Bank of Lithuania)

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Lithuania mints euro coin with Hebrew letters

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