Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite marked the anniversary of the massacre of some 2,000 Jews on Monday in the town of Moletai.

The president joined hundreds of people in commemorating the 75th year of the murders by the Nazi invaders and their Lithuanian collaborators.

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During World War II more than 90 percent of the country’s 240,000 Jews were murdered.

This event was the first such commemoration to mark the massacre.

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Hana Levi Julian is a Middle East news analyst with a degree in Mass Communication and Journalism from Southern Connecticut State University. A past columnist with The Jewish Press and senior editor at Arutz 7, Ms. Julian has written for Babble.com, Chabad.org and other media outlets, in addition to her years working in broadcast journalism.