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.

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.