Tag: Lithuania

The move has stunned many inside and outside the IDF, both due to the unilateral nature of the decision and due to the choice of alternative destination.

So far, the Putin administration has refused Lithuania's request to question Gorbachev regarding his role in the events of January 13, 1991.

Israeli bureaucrats have denied visas for the son of a righteous gentile to attend a Jerusalem ceremony in his father’s honor.

"Jonas Noreika received the Cross of the Vytis, the highest honor a Lithuanian could receive posthumously."

Efraim Zuroff slammed the proposed legislation as the “final stage of a long attempt to whitewash massive complicity by Lithuanians.”

The register provides jarring evidence about all the events of the Holocaust and its horrors: actions and selections; ghetto liquidation and death marches; gas chambers and crematoria; death by starvation and shooting, and so much more.

“We are also requesting additional security be provided at the Jewish cemetery on Sudervė road in Vilnius to prevent vandalism," said the Jewish community.

Chiune Sempo Sugihara issued between 2,100 and 3,500 transit visas and saved some 6,000 Jews, papers which later came to be known as “visas for life.”

This year's excavation uncovered large sections of the bimah, which was originally two stories tall, and was built in the 18th century with a donation from the rich and well-connected Yesod (Yehudah Safra ve-Dayana).

"Inside the European Union there are states and territories where glorification of Nazi collaborators and the Nazis is part of the state agenda."

The drones are collecting topographic data that EJCI experts, who are based in Kiev, Ukraine, use to track down and design plans for the cemeteries.

According to Rabbi Lazar, the situation in Europe is less favorable for Jews.

In a 2011 interview, Roseanne said she would like to run for Prime Minister of Israel.

Zuroff said that “the Government of Lithuania has, over the last 25 years, been making great efforts to eliminate the crimes of thousands of Lithuanians that were directly involved in the murder of Jews.”

Netanyahu: "More should follow, more will follow, because Iran should not be rewarded for its aggression in the region."

"We too are proud of our history, our long history, our robust and pluralistic democracy which guarantees the rights of all our citizens."

"The families of my parents – of blessed memory – came from Lithuania at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th; I am making this visit also for this."

The IDF paratroopers are participating in joint training with the 173rd Brigade of the European Command of the US Army.

Nineteen countries participate in the maneuvers, with about 18,000 soldiers spread around Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.

Last month, Gal-On, the first director general of anti-Zionist NGO B'Tselem, was spared a vote to oust her from the chairmanship in her party's national convention.

The debate over establishing a new Jewish cemetery in the city of Kazan, capital of the Republic of the semi-autonomous republic of Tatarstan in southwest Russia, is all but resolved.

Secy-Gen. Stoltenberg to Lithuanian PM: "With NATO you will never lose that independence."

During the Second World War, Grazhbile and her mother opened a garment workshop for Jewish women living in the ghetto.

The European Union is working to remain united after Brexit, and what it perceives as a threat in US Pres. Trump's new unpredictable foreign policies.

Lithuanians marked the 75th anniversary of the massacre of Jews in Moletai by Nazis and local collaborators during World War II.

For the first time since the Holocaust the famous tunnel used by the prisoners of Ponar to escape from the Nazis had been located using new technologies for underground predictive scanning.

Prime Minister Netanyahu says a DNA test showed there are Sephardic roots in his family ancestry after historical research by his brother Ido, a writer.

It’s the Holocaust rescue story that often goes untold—Jews who put their lives on the line to save their fellow Jews.

Even though Daddy and Zaidi were less verbal, they could speak volumes to each other with a mere few words.

Rabbi Burstein said that a planned reconstruction of a sports palace was an “unacceptable desecration” of the Jewish cemetery where the Vilna Gaon is buried, while the Jewish community disagrees.