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Women, Pogroms, Love

J-Wire News Service — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 03:51:18 +0000

A Sydney exhibition by award-winning artist Wendy Lessick Bookatz. Leonard Cohen’s words: “I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere” – speak to the heart of this exhibition. Lessick’s exhibition is a journey through violence, memory and love. The rack […]

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

JNS — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 00:16:39 +0000

Official ceremonies on Sept. 21 commemorated the 80th anniversary of the liquidation of the Vilnius Ghetto in Lithuania during World War II, part of the National Memorial Day for the Genocide of Lithuanian Jews. Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė, along with other senior government officials and those associated with the International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of […]

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Holocaust film banned in Lithuania

J-Wire News Service — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 22:29:09 +0000

B’nai B’rith Australia New Zealand (ANZ) is honouring documentary filmmaker Saulius Beržinis with a Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the body of research, study, and documentation of Lithuania’s Jewish population during the Holocaust. Saulius Beržinis’ commitment to revealing and disseminating the truth about the atrocities visited upon Lithuania’s Jewish communities […]

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Holocaust documentary asks why Lithuania honours villains as heroes

Alan Zeitlin — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 05:32:05 +0000

Grant Gochin had seen documentation of Jonas Noreika’s signature ordering the construction of a ghetto to confine Lithuanian Jews who would be brutally shot to death. About 100 of Gochin’s relatives die this way, he said. So when the granddaughter of Noreika (who was governor of the Šiauliai district during the Nazi occupation of Lithuania) […]

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Wollongong City Council awaits the review outcome

J-Wire Staff — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 01:15:32 +0000

The Wollongong City Council is awaiting the results of reviews underway to assess the claim that Bronius Sredersas was involved in killing Jews in Lithuania in WWII before making its next move. Sredersas lived alone in Wollongong after immigrating to Australia and amassed a significant art collection which he gifted to the council and has been […]

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Pre-war Vilna online

J-Wire Newsdesk — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 03:10:56 +0000

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research has completed the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections Project (EBVOCP), a historic 7-year, $7 million initiative to process, conserve and digitize YIVO’s divided pre-war library and archival collections. In 1941, the Nazis ransacked the YIVO Institute in Vilna. Many documents were destroyed and a group of Vilna ghetto […]

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Darius Degutis: first-ever Lithuanian Ambassador to Australia

Eli Rabinowitz — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 05:13:53 +0000

Lithuania’s first-ever ambassador to Australia, Darius Degutis, leaves quarantine in Melbourne today, headed to the first Lithuanian Embassy in Canberra. Ambassador-designate Degutis is a senior government executive with experience in a variety of major foreign and security policy issues, including ambassadorial postings in Australia, Israel, South Africa, Poland as well as senior diplomatic postings in […]

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

JNS — Sun, 20 Oct 2019 01:11:08 +0000

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.”

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

J-Wire Newsdesk — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 08:44:09 +0000

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

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