Chiune Sugihara, consul-general in Kovno, issued over 2,000 visas in breach of Japanese policy; his son Nobuki addresses event, having received last-minute visa after ToI report

Joint Israeli-Lithuanian six-year excavation in ruins of centuries-old Jewish community center unearths prayer platform, silver pointer used when reading the Torah

Official says Piramont Cemetery project abandoned due to COVID-19 changing the conference tourism market

US ambassador issues rare rebuke of Valdas Rakutis, who chairs parliament's commission on historical memory

Bank of Lithuania unveils coin celebrating 300th anniversary of birth of Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, the 'Vilna Gaon,' who spent his life in Lithuanian capital of Vilnius

Unable to converge at Auschwitz-Birkenau this spring, New England ‘March’ organizers persist in spreading 'Never Again' message in tribute September 9

History tutor Miquel Puertas, from Spain, criticized state honors conferred on those who helped Nazi regime, among them Jonas Noreika, said to have organized murder of Jews

Jewish community blasts move, saying Vidmantas Valušaitis 'has deliberately distorted history,' presenting falsehoods about anti-Semitic actions of local authorities during WWII

Citing Israeli intelligence, Vilnius says Iranian-backed group 'uses terrorist means that pose threat to the security of a significant number of countries'

Memorial recounts the story of Chiune Sugihara, who issued transit visas to nearly 6,000 Jewish refugees without his government's approval, allowing them to escape the Nazis