Posts Tagged: Lithuania Jewish community
Lithuanian Government Blasted for Plans to Convert Historic Jewish Cemetery Into Conference Center
The Lithuanian government has come under fire for its decision to move forward with construction on the historic Snipiskes (Piramónt) Jewish Cemetery in the country's...
Archaeologists Confirm Lithuanian Power Grid Was Built With Jewish Tombstones
Yahoo/AP - Archaeologists confirmed this week that the electrical substation was built with tombstones pilfered from a Jewish cemetery. Vilinius Mayor Remigijus Simasius told the AP...
Pre-Holocaust ID Cards of Thousands of Jews Discovered in Lithuania
JNS.org - Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum archivists found some 26,000 previously unknown identification cards belonging to Jewish citizens in the national archives in Kaunas...
Crying Over Dead Jews: Lithuania’s Jewless Jewish Institutions
Lithuania's Jewish community isn't immune from the broader issues facing Jewish existence in Eastern Europe and the same problems of Jewish identity that...
