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Lithuania’s president to visit Yad Vashem
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleLithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaite will visit Israel’s Holocaust commemoration museum Yad Vashem on Monday, the museum announces.
She will tour the Holocaust history museum, “participate in a memorial ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance, visit the Children’s Memorial and sign the Yad Vashem Guest Book,” the museum says in a statement.
Lithuania’s Jewish community experienced the most comprehensive annihilation of any other community, with an estimated 195,000 Jews being killed out of a pre-World War II community of some 210,000.
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