Lithuania News News Lithuania » History: Upcycling History: How Lithuania Is Reclaiming Cultural Spotlight
Good things come in small packages. This adage has withstood the test of time beyond jewelry marketing. The latest fascinating cultural and geopolitical case study is Lithuania. The Baltic nation of 2 ...
News Lithuania » History: History on Trial: Lithuania’s Unanswered Record
History is not preserved by monuments or institutions. It is preserved by accuracy, accountability, and the willingness to confront what is difficult. Nowhere is that obligation more binding than in ...
News Lithuania » History: ‘Mr. Landsbergis’ Review: Sergei Loznitsa’s Immersive Dive Into Lithuania’s Battle for Independence
Winner of the top prize at IDFA, the Ukrainian doc maker's epic chronicle of the early collapse of the USSR is authoritative and detailed even by his exacting standards. However much you think you ...
News Lithuania » History: A history of Russian oppression fueled Lithuania’s energy independence
VILNIUS, Lithuania - The Energy Ministry in this Baltic nation is located across a small street from a former KGB prison, where, during decades of Soviet rule, Lithuanian dissenters were interrogated, ...
News Lithuania » History: Holocaust education: Why telling Lithuania’s Jewish story matters more than ever - opinion
As we approach Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, this year’s theme of “Bridging Generations” reminds us that the responsibility of remembrance lies with all of us. At the Lost Shtetl Museum, a ...
News Lithuania » History: ‘The Enemy Beside Me’: Can the Truth of Lithuania Holocaust History Be Told in Lithuania to Lithuanians and By Lithuanians?
Only once in my professional career did I assign a work of fiction to my syllabus for a history course. The story-teller was the incomparable Philip Roth and the book was “The Plot Against America,” ...
News Lithuania » History: Digging Up Lithuania's Jewish History
Archaeologists unearthed the central prayer platform of the main synagogue in Vilnius, Lithuania, which was destroyed by the Nazis in World War II. This summer, archaeologists in the capital of ...