On September 18, at the Chiune Sugihara Memorial Museum in the town of Yaotsu, Japan, an exhibition prepared by the Lithuanian National Museum (LNM) titled “Surviving Siberia:…
In the Siberian city of Yakutsk, the memorial dedicated to Lithuanian and Polish deportees was replaced by a monument to Russian soldiers who died in the war in Ukraine, it was reported on Wednesday.
In the city of Yakutsk in Eastern Siberia, Russia, the monument to deportees from Lithuania and Poland that stood here quietly disappeared. First, the informational plaques were removed, and then the huge ones were gone as well…
The chairman of the German community “Edelweiss,” Olaf Pasenau, has died.
We have been living in independent Lithuania for thirty-six years, but to this day we still have to talk about a pressing issue – the lack of state support for individuals who in various ways…
„We all returned to Lithuania. This is the greatest joy,“ says Jadvyga Jotautaitė-Peleckienė, who spent eight years with her family in Siberia. In the spring of 1949, her childhood was interrupted…
President Gitanas Nausėda says that with brutal aggression seen again in Europe, the experience of Lithuania’s political prisoners and deportees from the Soviet era reminds us that freedom requires courage,…
