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May 4, 2024, 7:10 am
The amazing true story of a baby illegally born and smuggled out of Kovno ghetto
Elida Freidman Goldberg Katzman changed names, families, countries and continents numerous times as she grappled until her premature death with being a Holocaust orphan from birth
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October 1, 2022, 6:34 am
In Kaunas, a British artist shines light on Holocaust massacre forgotten by locals
Near the site of one of the genocide’s most heavily photographed atrocities, lighting designer Jenny Kagan brings the city’s wartime past ‘Out of Darkness’
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How 80 years ago, Jewish teens rescued the Kaunas Ghetto’s holy books
In the Nazis’ Feb. 1942 ‘Books Aktion,’ Jews were ordered to hand over all books. Now, the history of resistance efforts that saved countless works is in danger of being forgotten
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February 17, 2017, 4:48 pm
Nationalists celebrate Nazi collaborator, Pepe the Frog near Lithuania execution site
170 people attend march in Kaunas, passing close to Lietovus Garage, where locals butchered dozens of Jews in 1941
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August 9, 2016, 10:25 pm
Lithuanian city defends parties at former concentration camp
Deputy mayor claims activities are ‘exclusively educational and pertaining to the museum’s purpose,’ though evidence refutes this
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August 3, 2016, 6:55 pm
Nazi hunter to Lithuanian mayor: Stop parties at former concentration camp
Head of Seventh Fort heritage center maintains no events held where Jews are buried, claims proceeds to go toward site upkeep
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July 25, 2016, 9:11 am
Lithuanian concentration camp is now a wedding venue
Complex containing remains of 5,000 murdered Jews cited as example of country’s refusal to deal with complicity in Holocaust
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Cnaan Liphshiz
February 21, 2016, 9:39 pm
Is Lithuania ready to own up to its Holocaust past?
New book prompts soul-searching in a country that saw its Jewish community nearly annihilated during World War II
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July 8, 2015, 12:13 pm
Low-cost airline Ryanair to begin Israel flights
Discount carrier’s entry into local market will bring European vacationers to the southern city of Eilat
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February 17, 2015, 6:00 pm
Lithuanian fascists march near Holocaust execution site
500 ultra nationalists converge near location where 10,000 Jews were massacred in one day by Nazis in 1941
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February 27, 2013, 3:12 pm
Aussie attempts to find family in the Old Country
Unlike most Jews with roots in Eastern Europe, Naomi Bloch believes she may have relatives still in the region
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Hillel Kuttler
February 19, 2013, 3:38 pm
Efraim Zuroff
Neo-Nazi march turns out to be no fun at all
The Lithuanian marchers were hateful, numerous, young, and largely unchallenged.
June 22, 2012, 11:59 am
Robert Rozett
Getting back to the basics about the Holocaust
We must do everything we can in order to fight the trend to marginalize and obscure the role of diverse groups of local collaborators in the murder of their Jewish countrymen
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