A rally “Lithuania In My Heart”, organised by Lithuanian Union of Political Prisoners and Deportees, took place at the beginning of August, in the valley of the Dubysa river in Ariogala. More…

At the beginning of August there was a seminar for teachers and educators held in Kaunas. The subject of the seminar – the history of Kaunas Jews: life before war, the Nazi occupation and the Holocaust. More…

On 19-28 of August a group of Lithuanian educators attended an international seminar in Israel,  Yad Vashem – International School for Holocaust Studies. During the ten day visit the teachers learned about the situation of Lithuanian and European Jewry before the Second World War, the Yiddish language and its destiny, the Nazi policy, antisemitism, the Holocaust in Europe and Lithuania and other genocides around the world. More…