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VILNIUS TO PERPETUATE THE MEMORY OF THE GREAT SYNAGOGUE: THE FORMER JEWISH SPIRITUAL AND CULTURAL CENTRE Added 2011-06-22 With a view to perpetuating the memory of the former Jewish spiritual and cultural center – the Great Synagogue of Vilnius – a historical archaeological excavation of the site has been launched. The exploration team led by archaeologist Zenonas...
AJC COMMENDS LITHUANIA JEWISH COMMUNAL PROPERTY COMPENSATION BILL Added 2011-06-22 June 21, 2011 -- New York -- AJC commends Lithuania’s adoption today of a law to provide compensation for Jewish communal property seized during the Holocaust. “Thankfully, Lithuania’s Parliament, the Seimas, and Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius,...
SEIMAS PASSED A LAW ON COMPENSATION TO JEWISH RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES Added 2011-06-21 21 June 2011 (from the morning plenary session) Acknowledging the significant contribution of the Lithuanian Jewish community to Lithuanian culture and social progress before the Second World War, occupation of Lithuania, and the Holocaust...
JEWISH REPS THANK LITHUANIAN ADMINISTRATION FOR RESPECT TO OLD CEMETERY Added 2011-06-17 VILNIUS, Jun 16, BNS – Representatives of the Jewish community on Thursday thanked the administration of Lithuania and Vilnius for the respect to the old Jewish cemetery. “This is a day of triumph of democracy, when we see that negotiations and...
LITHUANIAN PRIME MINISTER TO ATTEND UNVEILING OF MEMORIAL PLAQUE AT OLD JEWISH CEMETERY IN VILNIUS Added 2011-06-16 VILNIUS, Jun 16, BNS – Lithuania's Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius will attend a ceremony to unveil a memorial plaque next to the old Jewish cemetery in Vilnius on Thursday. In the framework of the Year of Holocaust, Lithuania will complete...
LITHUANIAN PARLIAMENT TAKES ANOTHER STEP TOWARDS JEWISH RESTITUTION Added 2011-06-16 VILNIUS, Jun 16, BNS – Lithuania's parliament took yet another step regarding compensation of 128 million litas (EUR 37.1 mln) for Jewish property nationalized by totalitarian regimes.The bill on Good Will Compensation for Real Estate of...
A MONUMENT UNVEILED FOR LITHUANIAN JEWS DEPORTED TO SIBERIA Added 2011-06-16 On June 11 a monument to honour the memory of Lithuanian Jews deportees was unveiled in the Open Area Lithuanian Folk Museum in Rumšiškės. It is a copy of the monument, located in Bykov – Mys (Yakutia), where Lithuanian Jewish citizens, deported...
MINISTER OF INDUSTRY, TRADE AND LABOUR OF ISRAEL LED BY BUSINESS DELEGATION IS COMING TO LITHUANIA Added 2011-06-02 On June 2 Lithuanian ambassador to the State of Israel Darius Degutis was received by the Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor of Israel Shalom Simhon. Lithuanian honorary consuls Haim Ariel, Amos Eiran and Amnon Dotan and the chairman of...
RIGHTEOUS AMONG THE NATIONS FROM LITHUANIA HONORED AT YAD VASHEM Added 2011-06-02 On June 2 a solemn ceremony to honor the Righteous Among the Nations from Lithuania Antanas Babonas, his sister Ona Korsakienė and her husband Antanas Korsakas (all posthumously) was held at Yad Vashem. They risked their lives to save Roza and...
MINISTER OF DEFENCE OF THE REPUBLIC LITHUANIA WAS RECEIVED BY THE ASSOCIATION OF VILNA AND VILNA VICINTY JEWS IN ISRAEL Added 2011-06-02 On 1 June during her visit to the State of Israel the Lithuanian Minister of Defence Mrs. Rasa Juknevičienė was warmly received by the Association of Vilna and Vilna vicinity Jews in Israel.