VILNIUS, Lithuania (RNS) — If one city could be said to be the home of Yiddish, the traditional language of Ashkenazi Jewry, ...

On Saturday, Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte joined others in a march from the city’s former Jewish ghetto to Paneriai, the forest site formerly known as Ponary where the Nazis and ...

Which is probably why the European Jewish Congress and the Jewish Community of Lithuania this week highlighted and commended how city officials in Kaunas named a large new cultural and scientific ...

In 1939, Solly Ganor was an 11-year-old Jewish boy living in Kaunas, Lithuania. After a chance meeting with Chiune Sugihara, Solly and his family shared an emotional Hanukkah dinner with the ...

During his time in Lithuania, the Sugiharas quickly became acquainted with many of the local residents, including some Jewish families, who shared with him their fears of the growing Nazi menace.

Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania, known as the "Japanese Schindler," is famed for issuing "visas for life" to thousands of Jewish refugees fleeing Europe during the war.

The exhibition You Shall Not Make an Image. Commandments, Everyday Life and Change is a great opportunity to get versed in the history of Jewish culture and art , it also brings to mind the ...