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anti-Semitism in Lithuania
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December 31, 2022, 8:05 am
Lithuania passes law allocating $38 million in restitution for Holocaust survivors
Lithuanian parliament nearly doubles money already set aside for claims in country where 90% of Jews were killed in the Holocaust; bill not supported by all lawmakers
By
David I. Klein
February 1, 2021, 3:49 am
Lithuania MP who blamed Jews for Holocaust quits parliament memorial commission
In speech on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Valdas Rakutis said, ‘There was no shortage of Holocaust perpetrators among the Jews themselves’
By
Cnaan Liphshiz
January 28, 2021, 5:50 pm
Jews share blame for Holocaust, Lithuanian lawmaker says on remembrance day
US ambassador issues rare rebuke of Valdas Rakutis, who chairs parliament’s commission on historical memory
By
Cnaan Liphshiz
October 24, 2020, 10:51 pm
Lithuania mints first-ever EU coin with Hebrew letters, honoring Vilnius scholar
Bank of Lithuania unveils coin celebrating 300th anniversary of birth of Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, the ‘Vilna Gaon,’ who spent his life in Lithuanian capital of Vilnius
By
Cnaan Liphshiz
September 2, 2020, 8:58 am
Lithuania to deport activist against glorification of alleged Holocaust culprits
History tutor Miquel Puertas, from Spain, criticized state honors conferred on those who helped Nazi regime, among them Jonas Noreika, said to have organized murder of Jews
By
Cnaan Liphshiz
August 8, 2020, 10:15 am
Nazi hunter teams up with Lithuanian journalist to investigate Holocaust crimes
Efraim Zuroff and Ruta Vanagaite chronicle a partnership and budding friendship as they seek to convince her countrymen to face a genocide perpetrated in part by their forebears
By
Matthew Kalman
June 30, 2020, 9:11 am
Lithuania may dedicate 2021 to alleged perpetrator of Holocaust pogrom
Lawmakers seek to honor Juozas Luksa-Daumantas, accused of participating in the 1941 Lietukis Garage massacre in which locals tortured and beat dozens of Jews to death
By
Cnaan Liphshiz
January 15, 2020, 5:16 am
Following Poland’s lead, Lithuania proposes controversial Holocaust law
Government drafting legislation declaring neither Lithuania nor its leaders participated in genocide. Survivors, historians and remembrance institutions say this is blatantly false
By
Cnaan Liphshiz
January 4, 2020, 6:23 pm
Lithuania’s ruling party drafting bill exonerating nation from Holocaust crimes
Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Eastern Europe director calls planned legislation an ‘outrage’ and the ‘final stage of a long attempt to whitewash massive complicity’ in murders
By
JTA
October 30, 2019, 8:20 am
Lithuania’s Holocaust record is an ‘open wound,’ Israeli envoy says in Vilnius
Jerusalem has come under criticism from historians in recent years for failing to call out state-sponsored revisionism by its allies in Eastern Europe and the Baltics
By
Cnaan Liphshiz
September 9, 2019, 4:43 am
Demonstrators hang plaque honoring Lithuanian Nazi collaborator
Vilnius municipality had earlier removed a memorial to Jonas Noreika, who is believed to have personally overseen the murder of Jews when the Nazis controlled Lithuania
By
JTA
August 8, 2019, 2:09 am
Lithuanian Jews split over closure of only functioning synagogue in Vilnius
Institutions shut indefinitely by head of Jewish community over threats, but other leaders challenge move and call it alarmist and unnecessary
By
Cnaan Liphshiz
August 7, 2019, 12:20 am
Lithuanian Jews indefinitely shut community center, lone synagogue after threats
Amid escalating controversy over national commemoration policies, Jewish leader demands government speak out, wonders ‘whether we are safe or not’
By
Raphael Ahren
August 4, 2019, 10:17 am
Graves, guilt and genius: Inside Lithuania’s struggle with its checkered past
Once an epicenter of Jewish life, the Baltic state still refuses to come clean about its dark history, critics charge. But recent developments show it is a work in progress
By
Raphael Ahren
July 25, 2019, 5:40 pm
Lithuanian capital to rename street honoring anti-Semitic Nazi collaborator
Nationalist protesters picket city hall in defense of Kazio Skirpos during Wednesday’s 21-16 vote; mayor says he’s pleased with result
By
Cnaan Liphshiz
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