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More than 4 000 South Africans have had their Lithuanian citizenship restored to them, and with the benefits of citizenship comes the responsibility to elect strong,...
It’s election season this year around the world, with the people of more than 50 countries going to cast their ballots. Fresh from the Lithuanian presidential...
Although close to 200 Litvaks – Jews of Lithuanian descent – voted in the Lithuanian presidential elections on 12 May at Beyachad in Johannesburg, the result...
Its not too late to register and vote in the Lithuanian elections. It is really important for all Lithuanian citizens to vote to secure the ongoing...
Members of the Lithuanian government are calling on South Africans holding Lithuanian citizenship to vote in the upcoming election, saying its outcome could determine the future...
JTA – A narrow window has opened for Lithuanian Holocaust survivors and their descendants to apply for restitution under the terms of a law passed last...
Last month, the Lithuanian ambassador to South Africa, Dainius Junevičius, packed up his official residence, boarded a plane back to Vilnius, and retired from public life,...
An elaborate samovar, otherwise known as a Russian tea urn, is being escorted from Cape Town to Lithuania by the outgoing Lithuanian ambassador to South Africa...
In his last public engagement in South Africa, Lithuanian Ambassador Dainius Junevičius focused on the devastating and irreversible destruction of Lithuanian Jewry during the Holocaust, especially...
The Lithuanian government is openly encouraging South African Litvaks (Jews of Lithuanian descent) to claim Lithuanian passports if they are eligible to do so, however the...
One of Lithuania’s most controversial plaques – for Litvaks (Jews descended from Lithuania) anyway – was overnight no longer in its pride of place in Vilnius,...
I grew up hearing about “der heim” from my grandfather, referring to this far off Baltic country called Lithuania. Most South African Jews did, but I...
It’s almost impossible to comprehend that of the 220 000 Jews brutally killed and dumped in pits in 200 sites across Lithuania, most were killed within six...
There’s the 80-name list of the Lithuanian murderers of my family in Birzai (50 were neighbours); there’s the epic, disputed, and mysteriously buried Melamad List of...
How Lithuania celebrated the mass murderer of its Jewish Citizens by honoring their Nazi murderers. While searching for justice for the murder of his family, Grant...
JTA – Lithuania’s parliament passed a law this week to set aside more than €37 million (R675 million) as restitution for Holocaust survivors and their heirs....
When thinking about the Holocaust in Lithuania, some of us can only think about the horror from a distance or in small doses. But filmmaker Michael...
“We have been fasting for two days now, and we are going to the slaughter. Our yortzheit will be on 29 August, so please observe it.”...
Johannesburg attorneys Raymond Joffe and Ivor Feinberg were on 11 March given one of the highest honours from the president of Lithuania for nationals outside of...
For many of us, Lithuania exists in black and white, images described to us by our grandparents in grainy shtetls, photos with faded corners. On Sunday...
Kęstutis Pikūnas put together a beautiful coffee table book called ‘Passport – The Litvaks’ about the Jews of Lithuania. Being Lithuanian and having grown up there,...
My grandparents suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. I grew up witnessing their internal, silent agony. They were victimised by antisemitism, and suffered. As the clouds gathered,...
Most Lithuanians know very little about the country’s Jewish life prior to the Holocaust. While some remain uninterested or antagonistic about this Jewish heritage, there are...
While our Lithuanian background forms the very basis of South African Jewish identity, a leading historian of South African Jewry, Gideon Shimoni, says the actual numbers...
On 18 August 2020, the Lithuanian Supreme Court issued a final ruling denying the review of the merits of a complaint alleging that the Lithuanian government...
2021 will mark 80 years since the mass murder of Lithuanian Jewry. 200 000 people- 96 percent of the Lithuanian Jewish population-were killed in 234 places....
