Tag: Lithuania
Lithuania parliament drafts bill absolving nation, leaders from Holocaust crimes
A Lithuanian parliament committee is drafting legislation declaring that neither Lithuania nor its leaders as participating in the Holocaust, a lawmaker working on the bill said last month at a conference.
“The Lithuanian state did not participate...
Play about Lithuanian Nazi collaborators reignites controversy
Two years after “Our People; Journey With an Enemy” was taken off the shelves in Lithuania due to its allegations of collaboration between the local population and the Nazis during the Holocaust, the book...
ADL condemns Benedictine SJP member for urging Holocaust survivor to denounce Israel
Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt on Tuesday condemned a member of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Benedictine University for asking a Holocaust survivor last week to denounce the Israeli government’s “ethnic cleansing.”
“To...
Anti-Semitic graffiti spray-painted on project commemorating Jewish life in Lithuania
Anti-Semitic graffiti was discovered in Vilnius, Lithuania, last week on a project depicting Jewish life before World War II.
The project Walls That Remember is a series of murals on the walls of Vilnius’ former...
Lithuanian demonstrators mount new memorial plaque for Nazi collaborator
Protesters in Lithuania’s capital reinstalled last week a memorial plaque to Nazi collaborator Jonas Noreika after the municipality had an earlier plaque dedicated to him removed.
The plaque was mounted, without a permit, on a wall...
Lithuania votes to find new name for street heralding Nazi collaborator
The city council in Lithuania’s capital has voted to rename a street that currently bears the name of anti-Semitic Nazi collaborator Kazio Skirpos.
The final tally in the Vilnius city council decision to change the...
Hebrew inscriptions revealed at Great Synagogue dig sites in Vilnius, Lithuania
Hebrew inscriptions were discovered for the first time since the beginning of the excavation project to expose the Great Synagogue of Vilna, Lithuania, which was burned during the Holocaust and demolished by the Soviets.
According...
Lithuania Jewish community slams state center for faulty details of Holocaust
The state-funded Center for the Study of the Genocide and Resistance of Residents of Lithuania has been under fire for publishing last month that “the Lithuanians operated against the will of the Germans” during...
![Vilensija [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons](https://jewishwebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Šukioniai_Jono_Noreikos_paminklas-324x235.jpg "Lithuania’s ‘Big Lie’: Goebbels Would Be Proud")
Lithuania’s ‘Big Lie’: Goebbels Would Be Proud
Lithuania has a problem with people who tell the truth. This should be evident not only from the government’s reaction to the mountain of evidence I have provided that the actions of some “national...
Pope Francis takes part in ceremony commemorating the liquidation of Vilnius Ghetto
Pope Francis took part in a commemoration ceremony marking 75 years since the liquidation of the Vilnius Ghetto.
The pontiff’s visit to Vilnius, capital of Lithuania, was part of his tour of the Baltic countries....