Work to construct the state-of-the-art Lost Shtetl museum in Šeduva, Lithuania is under way. Ground was broken and the symbolic cornerstone laid in a ceremony Friday attended by Lithuania’s Prime Minister, Speaker of Parliament, Foreign Minister, senior diplomats, Jewish leaders, … continue reading →
By now, it is fairly common — at least in Poland, but also elsewhere — to use the recovered fragments of gravestones from destroyed Jewish cemeteries to create Holocaust memorials. (We wrote about the recovery of gravestones and fragments in … continue reading →
Following a meeting with representatives of the Lithuanian Jewish community and Lithuanian Cultural Heritage Department, leaders from the municipality of Kalvarija, Lithuania, appear to have agreed to go ahead with plans to renovate the town’s important Jewish communal complex on Sodų … continue reading →
If you’re in Lithuania — there is still time to see “Back to Shul,” an exhibition of photographs of Lithuanian synagogues by the British photographer Richard Schofield, the founder and creative director of the International Centre for Litvak Photography. The … continue reading →
Mazel tov to JHE friend Sergey Kanovich — Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaitė has awarded him a high state honor for his work to preserve Lithuanian Jewish heritage. Kanovich, who founded of the Šeduva “Lost Shtetl” Jewish Memorial Fund and … continue reading →
