Yesterday, July 7, German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier paid his respects to victims of the Holocaust at Ponar outside Vilnius.

Lithuanian Jewish Community chairwoman Faina Kukliansky, Israeli ambassador to Lithuania Hadas Wittenberg Silverstein, Lithuanian prime minister Gintautas Paluckas, German ambassador Cornelius Zimmermann and others accompanied the German head of state and paid their respects as well.