Victims of the Lithuanian Jewish Genocide honored at Yad Vashem
On September 23, Chargé d‘Affairs a.i. Lina Kačerauskienė and the Embassy staff attended the commemoration ceremony marking the 83rd anniversary of the liquidation of the Vilnius Ghetto held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem.
Speaking at the ceremony L. Kačerauskienė noted that the tragedy of Lithuania’s Jews during the Holocaust is one of the darkest chapters in our country’s history and expressed the hope that the memory of the victims would always be cherished and that they would never be forgotten.
Honouring the memory of the Holocaust victims L. Kačerauskienė laid a wreath at the memorial.
23 September 1943 is the date of liquidation of Vilnius ghetto – this day therefore is declared as Remembrance Day of the Victims of Genocide of Lithuanian Jews.
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