| | | THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF LITHUANIA | 2006.02.27 | The Lithuanian national revival movement and initial struggle for liberation from Soviet oppression, which occurred at the end of the 1980s, also provided the conditions for Jewish national rebirth. Jewish cultural support groups began to be formed in many institutions and towns. On August 25, 1988 it was officially decided to create a Lithuanian Jewish Cultural Society, the founding meeting of which took place on March 5, 1989. | |
| | The glorious past | 2006.02.24 | | Lithuania is a small country; its population is under four million. A lot of people around the globe do not have a slightest idea of where and what Lithuania is. But to the world Jewry it is a well-known place. | |
| | Our annihilation | 2006.02.22 | | The Nazis and their local accomplices destroyed the unique community. There are more than 200 sites of the mass murder of Jews in Lithuania. Paneriai, just outside of Vilnius, where approximately 70,000 Jews were shot dead, is one of the most horrifying places in Europe. Tens of thousands of Jews, including children, old people, and women, were brutally murdered at the Kaunas Ninth and other forts, in the Vidzgiris forest near Alytus, in Marijampole, in the Pivonija forest near Ukmerge, etc. | |
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