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PARLIAMENT ANNOUNCES 2011 AS YEAR OF MEMORY OF HOLOCAUST VICTIMS IN LITHUANIA Added 2010-09-22 Lithuania's parliament on Tuesday 21st of September announced 2011 as the Year of Memory of Holocaust Victims in Lithuania. Under the resolution, the loss of Lithuania's Jewish community during the years of Nazi occupation is a gigantic...
GENOCIDE VICTIMS OF LITHUANIAN JEWS HONORED IN VILNIUS, JERUSALEM Added 2010-09-22 Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite and Parliamentary Speaker Irena Degutiene on Tuesday paid tribute to victims of the Holocaust on the Day of Lithuanian Jews Genocide on Tuesday. Degutiene, Culture Minister Arunas Gelunas, vice-ministers...
THE DAY OF LITHUANIAN JEWS GENOCIDE WAS COMMEMORATED IN YAD VASHEM Added 2010-09-21 On 20 September 2010 the Embassy of Lithuania in Israel in cooperation with the Association of Vilna and Vilna vicinity Jews in Israel held a memorial ceremony for the Lithuanian Jews who perished in the Holocaust at the Yad Vashem memorial in...
THE DAY OF LITHUANIAN JEWS GENOCIDE WILL BE COMMEMORATED IN YAD VASHEM Added 2010-09-14 On Monday, 20 September 2010, at 16:00 a memorial ceremony for the Lithuanian Jews who perished in Holocaust will start in the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem, Har Hazikaron, Jerusalem. The event is dedicated to mark 67 years since liquidation...
PRIME MINISTER'S ADVISER: ANTI-SEMITISM IS ALWAYS DEPLORABLE Added 2010-08-26 Adviser to the Prime Minister has condemned an anti-Semitic provocation in Kaunas, when, during a city festival “Hanza Kaunas 2010” a pig’s head representing a Jew was left at the entrance of a synagogue. “Anti-Semitic provocations like this are a...
MEETING WITH DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND SPORT Added 2010-08-18     On 16 August 2010 Ambassador Darius Degutis had a meeting with the director general of the Ministry of culture and sport of Israel Mrs. Orly Froman. During the meeting possibilities for cooperation between Lithuania and...
AN ARTICLE ABOUT VILNIUS IN ISRAEL'S DAILY "JERUSALEM POST" Added 2010-08-12 Jewish Vilnius: A city concealed, a city revealed http://www.jpost.com/Home/Article.aspx?id=184468
NOVATURAS WILL BE FLYING TO EILAT RESORT IN ISRAEL Added 2010-08-09 5 August 2010, Vilnius. Novaturas, the largest travel organiser in the Baltic States, yesterday, during the event in Vilnius, to the media and representatives of travel agencies presented the main novelty of the coming winter tourism season –...
MEETING WITH MAYOR OF GILBOA REGION Added 2010-08-04 On 3 August 2010 ambassador Darius Degutis had a meeting with the Mayor of  Gilboa region Daniel Atar.   During the meeting, the Mayor informed about implementation of EU supported Gilboa (Israel) – Jenin (Palestinian Authority)...
CONDOLENCE OVER AIR CRASH VICTIMS Added 2010-07-28    Letter of condolences (word document)