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The site of the old cemetery in Pikelai (left) and the site of the town's old synagogue
November 28, 2024, 11:31 am
The Jews of Lithuania – book review: an enticing history of a once vibrant community
In a concise narrative backed by meticulous research Nick Sayers tells the story of the community his great-grandfather left behind when he emigrated to Cork
By Antony Lishak
Fania Brantsovsky
September 24, 2024, 12:48 pm
Last survivor of Vilna partisans dies, aged 102
Heroine Fania Branstsovsky was keeper of Yiddish flame and the fight against the Nazis
By Jenni Frazer
Pic: Susannah Fields
September 10, 2024, 11:47 am
Edgware Torah scroll delivers lifeline to Lithuanian community
Progressive congregation in Vilnius will celebrate Rosh Hashanah with its own scroll for the first time since before the Second World War
By Michelle Rosenberg
A view of an opening event for the Vilnius 700th anniversary events in the Lithuanian capital, Jan. 25, 2023. (Gabriel Khiterer)
September 26, 2023, 9:13 am
Vilnius is celebrating its 700th anniversary. Lithuanian Jews are commemorating a darker one
Starting in the early 19th century, Vilnius was one of the most important Jewish centres in the world, known as the Jerusalem of the North.
By Emily Tamkin (JTA)
Shmuel Zygielbojm
March 9, 2023, 6:53 pm
Millions of Bund pages to be digitised for posterity
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will make publicly available papers of Jewish labour movement founded in Lithuania, including speeches delivered by anarchists and revolutionaries
By Jenni Frazer
Jewish Lithuanian partisans’ group ‘The Avengers’ on their return to Vilna at the time of the liberation of the city by the Red Army, July 1944. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections
December 31, 2022, 12:27 pm
Lithuania passes law allocating nearly $40 million for Holocaust survivors
The World Jewish Restitution Organisation called it “an important step to providing a measure of justice to Lithuanian Holocaust survivors and their families
By JTA
The Old Town of Vilnius, Lithuania
December 3, 2022, 5:46 pm
Lithuania proposes setting aside nearly £33m for Holocaust survivors and their heirs
Legislation announced to allocate funds as restitution to survivors and their heirs. 
By David I Klein (JTA)
Vilnius, Lithuania - September 15, 2015: Photos discovered on the ruins of Vilnius jewish ghetto displayed in windows of a former ghetto House of cult.
November 21, 2022, 2:09 pm
Lithuanian PM proposes £32million in compensation to Holocaust victims 
90 percent of the 220,000 Jews in Lithuania were killed by Nazis and collaborates during the war. About 5,000 Jews currently live there.
By Jotam Confino in Israel
The tiny silver Yad survived destruction at the hands of the Nazis and Soviets (Photo: Israel Antiquities Authority)
August 26, 2021, 3:52 pm
Archaeologists unearth tiny Torah pointer in ruins of Lithuanian synagogue
The Great Synagogue of Vilna had been destroyed by the Nazis and bulldozed by the Soviets
By Michael Daventry
The run-down Palace of Culture and Sport in Vilnius sits atop a former Jewish cemetery. (Wikimedia Commons)
August 18, 2021, 10:25 am
Lithuania abandons plan to build conference centre atop former Jewish cemetery
Government shelved controversial plans to build flashy conference centre on a former Jewish cemetery containing thousands of bodies — including many Jewish luminaries
By JTA
Fintech
February 19, 2021, 8:57 am
How UK-Israel collaborations are transforming fintech
The pandemic has increased our reliance on innovation. Candice Krieger looks at UK-Israel partnerships and companies revolutionising the finance technology sector
By Candice Krieger
Both sides of a commemorative 10 euro coin celebrating the 300th birthday of the Vilna Gaon in Lithuania. (Courtesy of the Bank of Lithuania via JTA)
October 23, 2020, 5:40 pm
Lithuania mints first euro coin with Hebrew letters
10-euro coin was minted as a limited-edition commemorative collector’s item celebrating the 300th anniversary of the birth of the Vilna Gaon
By JTA
The Old Town of Vilnius, Lithuania
September 4, 2020, 3:14 pm
Monument to righteous gentiles planned in Vilnius
The city’s municipality and the Lithuanian Culture Ministry said the £220,000 project on Ona Šimaitė Street would be 'guided by principles of historical justice'
Hezbollah supporters in Beruit (Credit Image: PROPA Images/ZUMAPRESS.com)
August 15, 2020, 7:04 pm
Lithuania bans Hezbollah-affiliated persons from entering its territory
Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius thanked Lithuanian and Israeli national security agencies for information that led to the decision
By JTA
Yehuda Bauer
July 17, 2020, 10:50 am
Top Shoah historian says Israel ‘collaborated’ with Holocaust distortion
Yehuda Bauer, 94, says Israel 'accepted the Polish narrative completely' over the Shoah, in order to protect the 'political and economic and security relationship' with the country
By Jewish News Reporter
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