Community leaders say Jewish population became the ethnic group most persecuted by the Soviet occupiers during 'enslavement' of country

Lawmakers seek to honor Juozas Luksa-Daumantas, accused of participating in the 1941 Lietukis Garage massacre in which locals tortured and beat dozens of Jews to death

Statue featuring rye field dedicated to Jewish 'Catcher in the Rye' author, close to village where his ancestors lived

Display organized by tourism bosses meant to underline how much cash is being lost by delays linked to Jewish groups' protests over planned construction

Main ceremony at Yad Vashem national memorial site prerecorded and held in front of empty venue; President Rivlin, Prime Minister Netanyahu and survivors deliver messages by video

Gitanas Nauseda cancels participation in Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem, with source saying it is because Polish president wasn't allowed to speak while Putin was

'We will not let the Kremlin manipulate history so easily and spread lies,' pledges Vilnius's top diplomat, as Moscow blames Polish anti-Semitism for war's outbreak

Government drafting legislation declaring neither Lithuania nor its leaders participated in genocide. Survivors, historians and remembrance institutions say this is blatantly false

Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Eastern Europe director calls planned legislation an 'outrage' and the 'final stage of a long attempt to whitewash massive complicity' in murders

Simon Wiesenthal Center official calls proposed legislation the 'final stage of a long attempt to whitewash massive complicity by Lithuanians' in Nazi murder of country's Jews