Posts Tagged: Lithuania Antisemitism
Expert Court Witness Challenges Lithuanian Government’s Plan to Construct Convention Center Atop Historic Jewish Cemetery
A court in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius has heard an appeal from over 100 descendants of Jews buried in the Old Vilna Jewish Cemetery...
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...
Remapping the Vilnius Ghetto
"How people perished in the ghetto—that I understand; what I cannot understand is how they lived there," writes Second World War refugee and esteemed Yiddish...
Purim in Lithuania? A Season for State-Approved Neo-Nazi City-Center Marches
Since the Holocaust, Purim and the Book of Esther cannot be taken only in the light-hearted spirit of the merriest of holidays. Words presaging the scourges...
