Pension payments available to additional Holocaust victims following negotiations

Recent negotiations with the German government have allowed the Claims Conference to expand eligibility for pension programs. According to these criteria, eligible for Claims Conference pensions may be Jewish Holocaust survivors who were in: (i) Concentration camps; or (ii) Ghettos for at least 3 months; or (iii) Hiding for at least 6 months without access to the outside world, or lived under false identify for at least 6 months, in Nazi-occupied territory.

Fourth World Litvak Congress

The Jewish Community of Lithuania has a pleasure and a privilege to invite you to The Fourth World Litvak Congress, which will be held here in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, from 22nd of September to 25th of September, 2013. The event will bring together natives and descendants of Jews from the Litvak lands, which coincide with modern Lithuania, and also Belarus, Latvia, northeastern Poland and much more. The Congress will among its many activities commemorate the seventieth anniversary of the liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto in 1943.

The trip to Lithuania

If you are planning a visit to Lithuania, please let us know and we will gladly assist you in providing all the needed information. Many people know about the glorious past of the Lithuanian Jews, horrible tragedy during the years of Holocaust. You can contact us via e-mail info[at]lzb.lt or call +370 5 2613003. Waiting for meeting you in Lita!

The Prayers in Synagogue

The prayers in the Vilnius Choral synagogue (Pylimo str. 39, Vilnius). Monday-Friday: 8.30 Shaharis and 17.00. Mincha, Maariv. Saturday: Schabbes services start at 09.00. Sunday: 10.00 Shaharis and 17.00. Mincha, Maariv.

News

Everything about the Seventh Fort in the Book and Film by Vytautas Petrikėnas and Martynas Kosas

Details: Created on Monday, 07 May 2012 13:58

The Kaunas District Public Library will hold a presentation of V. Petrikėnas and M. Kosas’s book “VII fortas: lietuviška tragedija” [“The Seventh Fort: A Lithuanian Tragedy”] and screen the film of the same name at 5 PM on May 8, 2012, the Kaunas District Library announced.

Ninth Fort Museum historian Vytautas Petrikėnas and Kaunas Fort Crew Military History Club leader Martynas Kosas decided to collect exhaustive information and write the book because the Lithuanian public knows so little about what went on at these forts in Kaunas. The book reportedly contains facts, witness testimonies and insights by researchers never published before. It is intended to help readers acquaint themselves with the painful history and to understand the tie binding the past, present and future.

A documentary film complements the book. The filmmakers use historical sources and conversations with Lithuanian and foreign researchers as well as public figures in order to disclose the true scope and details of the tragedy. Historical re-enactments by Grenadierius Miltiary Club members are supposed to make the film more realistic. “We, the citizens of Lithuania today, cannot remain apathetic to the history of our own country, because it is only by understanding what our people experienced that we can understand our people,” the two authors reportedly said.

Admission is free.

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Events

Jewish Cuisine Seminars Continue

Everyone interested in learning how to cook traditional Jewish dishes and in finding out more about traditions of preparation and the special characteristics of Jewish cuisine is invited to attend the series of seminars called Jewish Cuisine. Topics: May 24, 2013 -- Traditional Jewish matzo dishes -- matzo cakes. The seminars are on Fridays in the White Hall on the first floor of the Lithuanian Jewish Community, Pylimo 4, Vilnius. Please come!