Lithuanian jews

Rabbi Lando: Zionism to blame for Arab hostility, religious IDF troops killed over 'twisted Torah'

UTJ spiritual leader Lando: '[National-Religious Jews] are being killed because their rabbis teach them twisted Torah' • Litvak rabbi says secular Israelis 'have no connection with Judaism'

Rabbi Dov Lando attends a wedding in Bnei Brak, January 15, 2026.
Lithuanian teenagers marched to sites where Jews from their towns were murdered during the Holocaust.

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

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

The old Jewish cemetery in Vilnius, circa 1922

US antisemitism envoy pressures Lithuania to stop construction over Vilnius Jewish cemetery


Memories from the ashes

Max Leibowitz recalls his roots in Lithuania

A sign in Yiddish, Hebrew and Lithuanian saying,‘In this place the Hitlerist murderers and their local helpers in the year of 1941 murdered 250 Jews, children, women and men’

Writer censored for accusing Lithuanian hero of Holocaust crimes

The recall of Vanagaitė’s books came one day after she revealed that she is in a relationship with Efraim Zuroff, an Israeli Nazi hunter

Vilnius, Lithuania

Thousands of Jewish documents lost during the Holocaust discovered

Among the finds are letters written by Sholem Aleichem, a postcard by Marc Chagall, and poems and manuscripts by Chaim Grade.

YIVO unveils lost Jewish documents thought to have been destroyed during the Holocaust

Lithuanian FM: ‘Holocaust memory is important, but ties with Israel are the future’

Lithuania has been a staunch diplomatic ally for Israel, particularly at the UN and the within the EU.

LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER Linas Linkevicius presents Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a replica of a little girl from a Holocaust memorial in Lithuania during their meeting in Jerusalem on Monday.

‘Hatikva’ moments

Isn’t it all just bizarre? A “Hatikva moment” deluxe.

Sylvan Adams is an avid amateur cyclist whose medal haul includes five golds at Maccabiah games

Lithuania reconsiders plans to build atop destroyed Jewish cemetery

Rabbis and activists met with the Lithuanian ambassador to the US to discuss the convention center to be built on top of the former Snipiskes Cemetery.

A RED ROSE is pictured during the March of the Living to honor Holocaust victims in Paneriai, near Vilnius, Lithuania, in 2012.

Jewish Holocaust victims were neighbors and fellow citizens

The project is based on the fact that there are 227 Holocaust mass murder sites in Lithuania scattered all across the country.

Lithuania skyline

Hope for change in Lithuania

Let us all hope that the new spirit on display in Moletai will mark the beginning of a new era in Lithuania.

Lithuania skyline

Nazi hunter to Lithuanian mayor: Stop recreational concentration camp use

Holocaust historian Dr. Efraim Zuroff slams use of the Seventh Fort heritage site for such activities as "disgraceful."

Seventh Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania

How did a former concentration camp become a wedding venue in Lithuania?

In 1941, thousands of Jews were imprisoned, starved and finally massacred by Lithuanian Nazi collaborators at the Seventh Fort.

Seventh Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania