Jews in lithuania

Lithuanian students retrace Holocaust history on memorial day, confront country's role in massacres

Around 600 non-Jewish Lithuanian students participated in the March of the Living commemorations held in Vilnius and Ponary, Lithuania, where 70,000 people were killed during the Holocaust.

Lithuanian teenagers marched to sites where Jews from their towns were murdered during the Holocaust.
The Malisoff family sits for a photo in 1907. Pavel Malisoff and his wife Michla sit in the center.

How a new tool in Lithuania helps people read letters from their Jewish ancestors

Workers excavate the central floor and bimah of the Great Synagogue in Vilnius, Lithuania, July 22, 2026. (Shira Li Bartov)

Archaeologists uncover treasures of Vilnius’ Great Synagogue as Lithuanian Jews dispute its future

 LITHUANIA’S PRESIDENTIAL palace in the foreground, as seen from the tower of Vilnius University.

Vilnius marks 700 years, but Lithuanian Jews reflect on darker era


Lithuania abandons plan to build conference center atop former Jewish cemetery

Lithuania cancelled plans to build a conference center on top of what used to be the Piramont Cemetery after an outcry from the country's Jewish community.

A monument honoring the victims of the Ponary massacre near Vilnius, Lithuania

Lithuanians still coming to grips with slaughter of Jews 80 years ago

Lithuania was beautiful to visit. I was, however, overwhelmed with sadness. Like most South African Jews, my ancestors came from Lithuania and my family tree has family who perished in the Holocaust.

Former Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite stands under pictures of Jews killed in the Holocaust during a visit to Yad Vashem’s Hall of Names in 2015

Activist turns anti-Nazi act into commodified digital art

The renegade human rights activist has turned his destructive political art performance into a non-fungible token - a digital piece of art that can be bought and sold.

A screenshot of Prof. Dr. Stanislovas Tomas' video in which he destroys a Nazi collaborator's plaque

Lithuania mints first euro coin with Hebrew letters

The heads side of the coin features the Hebrew letter shin, followed by the acronym in Hebrew of Gaon Rabbi Elijah.

Euro (illustrative)

A journey into Lithuania’s heart of darkness

In an effort to discover the truth about the Holocaust in Lithuania, the Jerusalem-based Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff and writer Rūta Vanagaite undertook a 40-day journey together through the country.

Our People: Discovering Lithuania’s Hidden Holocaust

The Gaon of Vilna - Who was this venerable Jewish sage born 300 years ago?

April 23, 2020, marked the 300th anniversary of the birth of the Vilna Gaon.

A painting of the Vilna Gaon, circa 1915, on the Yesodei Hatorah School corridor wall

Grapevine: Ruth Bader Ginsburg refuses to bow to cancer

Many people have called for the ailing but feisty justice to retire, but so far she has resisted.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Lithuanian Jews reopen Vilnius synagogue 2 days after contested closure

Along with the synagogue, the community’s headquarters also were announced as being shut down due to threatening phone calls and emails, Kukliansky said Tuesday.

Synagogue in Vilnius, Lithuania

Google Doodle honors Chiune Sugihara who saved Jews during Holocaust

Chiune Sugihara illegally signed visas for Jews to escape Lithuania to reach a safe haven. In 1984 he was named as a "Righteous Among the Nations" title by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum.

Google Doodle honoring Chiune Sugihara

Book review: On the run

Moishe Rozenbaumas’s gripping memoir takes him from Lithuania to Russia to France

MOISHE ROZENBAUMAS escaped Lithuania on a bike headed for Russia when the Nazis invaded in 1941.