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Women, Pogroms, Love

A Sydney exhibition by award-winning artist Wendy Lessick Bookatz. Leonard Cohen’s words: “I greet you from the other side of...

Lithuanian, Jewish leaders mark 80th year since liquidation of Vilnius Ghetto

Official ceremonies on Sept. 21 commemorated the 80th anniversary of the liquidation of the Vilnius Ghetto in Lithuania during...

Holocaust film banned in Lithuania

B'nai B'rith Australia New Zealand (ANZ) is honouring documentary filmmaker Saulius Beržinis with a Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition...

Holocaust documentary asks why Lithuania honours villains as heroes

Grant Gochin had seen documentation of Jonas Noreika’s signature ordering the construction of a ghetto to confine Lithuanian Jews...

Wollongong City Council awaits the review outcome

The Wollongong City Council is awaiting the results of reviews underway to assess the claim that Bronius Sredersas was...

Pre-war Vilna online

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research has completed the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections Project (EBVOCP), a historic...

Darius Degutis: first-ever Lithuanian Ambassador to Australia 

Lithuania’s first-ever ambassador to Australia, Darius Degutis, leaves quarantine in Melbourne today, headed to the first Lithuanian Embassy in...

Anti-Semitic graffiti spray-painted on project commemorating Jewish life in Lithuania

The Lithuanian Jewish Community said on its website that the graffiti “is the latest in a series of acts of antisemitic vandalism of Jewish sites and statues in Vilnius and Lithuania.”

WJC and Lithuanian Jewish community mark 75 years since liquidation of Vilnius Ghetto: “We must continue to strengthen Jewish life in Lithuania”

WJC President Lauder praises Pope’s participation in commemoration: ‘Pope Francis is a true friend of the Jewish people’