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January 8, 2026, 4:01 pm

Lithuania Lost Shtetl Museum dedicated to 200 Jewish communities destroyed by Nazis

SPECIAL REPORT: Actor Liev Schreiber lends support to ambitious Šeduva project restoring 'the faces and names of a community that once lived here'

By Michelle Rosenberg

Remigijus Zemaitaitis, leader of the Dawn of the Nemunas Nemuno Ausra. Photo: LRT

December 8, 2025, 10:28 am

Lithuanian government party leader convicted of inciting hatred towards Jews

In a social media post, Lithuanian lawmaker Remigijus Žemaitaitis quoted an antisemitic nursery rhyme that encourages children to kill a wounded Jew

By Grace Gilson (JTA)

September 25, 2025, 3:37 pm

Lithuanian Jewish community remembered in country’s annual March of the Living

Holocaust survivor Arnold Cleves: 'To march as a Jew, as a free man, with my children and grandchildren, is the greatest victory for me':

By Michelle Rosenberg

Proposed conference centre on top of remains of historic Vilnius Jewish Cemetery.

August 8, 2025, 1:31 pm

Global outrage as Lithuania pledges to build conference centre over historic Jewish cemetery

Reneging on previous promises, authorities to move forward with desecration of remains of Šnipiškės Jewish Cemetery

By Michelle Rosenberg

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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