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Lithuania's Ninth Fort, a 19th century bunker complex that the Nazis and their helpers turned into a camp and execution area. (Screen capture: YouTube)
June 1, 2019, 8:41 am
Lithuanian soldiers, officials honor late chaplain of Holocaust-era death squad
Vitkija holds plaque ceremony for Zenonas Ignatavičius of 12th Lithuanian Auxiliary Police Battalion, whose troops were responsible for killing over 15,000 Jews in October 1941
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Lithuanian presidential candidate Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, his wife Silvija Skverneliene and their children cast a ballot during the presidential election in Vilnius on May 12, 2019. (Photo by Petras Malukas / AFP)
May 13, 2019, 3:36 am
Lithuanian PM, who backed moving embassy to Jerusalem, loses presidential bid
Saulius Skvernelis says he’ll quit after failure to make second round runoff; economist Gitanas Nauseda will face conservative Ingrida Simonyte in final vote
By Agencies and TOI staff
Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite speaks to the members of press at a polling station during the advance presidential elections in Vilnius, Lithuania, May 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)
May 11, 2019, 5:58 am
Voters to pick successor Sunday to Lithuania’s popular ‘Iron Lady’
Leading presidential candidate, PM Saulius Skvernelis, speaks in favor of moving embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, strengthening security and trade ties with Israel
By Agencies and TOI staff
British Holocaust denier David Irving. (JTA)
April 24, 2019, 4:51 pm
Lithuania bans Holocaust denier David Irving for 5 years
State authorities say they won’t allow 81-year-old who’s written books minimizing Nazi atrocities to commit similar crimes on their soil
By AFP
British Holocaust denier David Irving. (JTA)
April 9, 2019, 5:55 pm
Lithuania to blacklist Holocaust denier David Irving
Country’s top diplomat says people like controversial British historian who trivialize Nazi genocide ‘are not welcome in our country’
By AFP
Stanislovas Tomas smashes the plaque honoring Jonas Noreika in Vilnius, Lithuania, April 7, 2019 (Screen grab via Facebook)
April 8, 2019, 2:55 pm
Aspiring Lithuanian politician smashes plaque honoring Nazi collaborator
Stanislovas Tomas, a human rights attorney running in European Parliament elections, livestreams himself bashing plaque with sledgehammer before reporting himself to police
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A boy playing soccer at the entrance to the former concentration camp known as the Seventh Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania, on July 12, 2016. (JTA/Cnaan Liphshiz)
April 3, 2019, 4:44 pm
Lithuania’s genocide studies center accused of Holocaust denial
Local Jews say state-run body tasked with memorializing Holocaust is attempting to absolve country of substantial complicity in the mass murder of Jews during WWII
By JTA
The Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania (YouTube screenshot)
March 27, 2019, 4:32 pm
Lithuanian court rejects lawsuit against state honors for Nazi collaborator
Grant Gochin, an American Jew who lost many relatives in Holocaust-era executions attributed to Jonas Noreika, had sued against plaque honoring the anti-Communist hero
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Participants of a conference organized by the Germany-based foundation European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative (EJCI) watch a drone take off over a Jewish cemetery near the village of Reca, Slovakia, February 26, 2019. (Petr David Josek/AP)
February 27, 2019, 6:20 pm
Drones launched to help preserve Europe’s Jewish cemeteries
Nonprofit organization plans to map boundaries of 1,500 endangered burial grounds in Slovakia, Greece, Moldova, Lithuania and Ukraine so they can be properly enclosed
By Karel Janicek
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) speaks with his Lithuanian counterpart Saulius Skvernelis in Vilnius, Lithuania, on August 23, 2018. (AFP/Petras Malukas)
February 2, 2019, 1:18 am
Lithuania rejects Israeli request for remains of Vilna Gaon
Government adviser says famed 18th-century rabbi an ‘inseparable part’ of the history of Lithuania’s once thriving Jewish community
By AFP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (L) hold a Rubik's Cube at the Hungary-Israel Business Forum in Budapest, Hungary, on July 19, 2017. (Haim Zach/GPO/Flash90)
January 31, 2019, 9:11 am
Netanyahu scorned for wooing Holocaust-distorting allies
Many say PM betraying victims’ memory by reaching out to ex-communist nations swept up in a wave of World War II-era revisionism
By Aron Heller
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) meets with Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis in Jerusalem, January 29, 2019 (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)
January 30, 2019, 7:58 am
PM tells Lithuanian leader they are ‘forging bridge from past to future’
Meeting in Jerusalem, the two PMs discuss cooperation on cybersecurity, trade and more
By TOI staff
The Evangelical Reformed Church, Vilnius, Lithuania in April 2015. (Ardfern/Wikipedia CC-BY-SA-3.0)
January 24, 2019, 3:40 pm
Lithuanian church removes Jewish headstones used as stairs
Local Jewish community celebrates victory after years-long battle to ‘ensure respect for the dead and Jewish legacy’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Writer and film director Jonas Mekas seen during the 54th New York Film Festival at The Film Society of Lincoln Center, Walter Reade Theater in New York City, October 13, 2016. (Michael loccisano/GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP)
January 24, 2019, 1:01 am
Jonas Mekas, ‘godfather’ of avant-garde, dies at 96
Lithuanian-born film director, critic, patron and poet, survived a Nazi labor camp and, though not Jewish, considered moving to Israel after WWII
By Hillel Italie
Jonas Noreika (Wikipedia)
November 3, 2018, 5:30 am
Lithuanian state historians defend Nazi collaborator accused of killing Jews
Defense comes in response to an American activist’s lawsuit demanding removal of plaque in Vilnius honoring Jonas Noreika
By JTA
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