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September 26, 2023, 9:13 am
Vilnius is celebrating its 700th anniversary. Lithuanian Jews are commemorating a darker one
Starting in the early 19th century, Vilnius was one of the most important Jewish centres in the world, known as the Jerusalem of the North.
By
Emily Tamkin (JTA)
March 9, 2023, 6:53 pm
Millions of Bund pages to be digitised for posterity
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will make publicly available papers of Jewish labour movement founded in Lithuania, including speeches delivered by anarchists and revolutionaries
By
Jenni Frazer
December 31, 2022, 12:27 pm
Lithuania passes law allocating nearly $40 million for Holocaust survivors
The World Jewish Restitution Organisation called it “an important step to providing a measure of justice to Lithuanian Holocaust survivors and their families
By
JTA
December 3, 2022, 5:46 pm
Lithuania proposes setting aside nearly £33m for Holocaust survivors and their heirs
Legislation announced to allocate funds as restitution to survivors and their heirs.
By
David I Klein (JTA)
November 21, 2022, 2:09 pm
Lithuanian PM proposes £32million in compensation to Holocaust victims
90 percent of the 220,000 Jews in Lithuania were killed by Nazis and collaborates during the war. About 5,000 Jews currently live there.
By
Jotam Confino in Israel
August 26, 2021, 3:52 pm
Archaeologists unearth tiny Torah pointer in ruins of Lithuanian synagogue
The Great Synagogue of Vilna had been destroyed by the Nazis and bulldozed by the Soviets
By
Michael Daventry
August 18, 2021, 10:25 am
Lithuania abandons plan to build conference centre atop former Jewish cemetery
Government shelved controversial plans to build flashy conference centre on a former Jewish cemetery containing thousands of bodies — including many Jewish luminaries
By
JTA
February 19, 2021, 8:57 am
How UK-Israel collaborations are transforming fintech
The pandemic has increased our reliance on innovation. Candice Krieger looks at UK-Israel partnerships and companies revolutionising the finance technology sector
By
Candice Krieger
October 23, 2020, 5:40 pm
Lithuania mints first euro coin with Hebrew letters
10-euro coin was minted as a limited-edition commemorative collector’s item celebrating the 300th anniversary of the birth of the Vilna Gaon
By
JTA
September 4, 2020, 3:14 pm
Monument to righteous gentiles planned in Vilnius
The city’s municipality and the Lithuanian Culture Ministry said the £220,000 project on Ona Šimaitė Street would be 'guided by principles of historical justice'
August 15, 2020, 7:04 pm
Lithuania bans Hezbollah-affiliated persons from entering its territory
Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius thanked Lithuanian and Israeli national security agencies for information that led to the decision
By
JTA
July 17, 2020, 10:50 am
Top Shoah historian says Israel ‘collaborated’ with Holocaust distortion
Yehuda Bauer, 94, says Israel 'accepted the Polish narrative completely' over the Shoah, in order to protect the 'political and economic and security relationship' with the country
By
Jewish News Reporter
June 26, 2020, 9:39 am
50,000 sign petition against centre being built on 500-year-old Vilnius cemetery
'It is sacred ground and should be restored as a cemetery and memorial park to which pilfered gravestones that turn up all over the city can be returned'
By
Jewish News Reporter
April 24, 2020, 9:47 am
You can now take a virtual tour of Great Synagogue of Vilna under lockdown
Those who are house-bound because of the pandemic can “visit” the famous shul online after researchers recreated the site
By
Jewish News Reporter
January 10, 2020, 12:54 pm
Lithuania to mark Year of the ‘Japanese Schindler’
2020 will honour Chiune Sugihara, a diplomat who saved almost 6,000 people from the Nazis while serving as an official in Europe during the Shoah
By
Jewish News Reporter
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