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Jonas Noreika, a controversial Lithuanian military officer known as Generolas Vetra (General Storm), led the anti-Nazi resistance of the Lithuanian region of Zemaitija (Samogitia) during the Nazi occupation time when he served as head of Siauliai County, and also organized a Jew rescue network in Si...
The memorial plaque to Jonas Noreika, a controversial Lithuanian military officer known as Generolas Vetra (General Storm), which was reinstalled in Vilnius on Thursday night at the initiative of nongovernmental organizations, will damage Lithuania's image, says, Fainy Kukliansky, leader of the Jewi...
Supporters of Jonas Noreika, a controversial Lithuanian military officer known as Generolas Vetra (General Storm), on Thursday night reinstalled the memorial plaque removed from the facade of the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences in central Vilnius in July.
Supporters of Jonas Noreika, a controversial Lithuanian military officer known as Generolas Vetra (General Storm), plan in early September to install a new plaque to honor him in the place of the old one removed from the facade of the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences in centr...
Several hundred people rallied in Vilnius on Wednesday to protest against the city administration's decisions to remove commemorations to two officials who were allegedly involved in the Holocaust during World War Two.
Lithuania's first post-independence leader Vytautas Landsbergis says he had no intention to offend the Jewish Community of Lithuania with his words and only wanted to remind the people inciting anti-Semitic moods about the roots of the Catholic religion.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis on Tuesday condemned manifestations of ethnic hatred and called on the country's law enforcement to prevent them after the Jewish community spoke of threats.
Prosecutors have received four complaints over the removal of the memorial plaque to Jonas Noreika, a pre-war Lithuanian military officer and an anti-Soviet resistance fighter accused of collaboration with the Nazis, in central Vilnius, 15min.lt reported on Friday.
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevicius has called for decisions on memorial signs for historic personalities, sparking public discussions, to be based on experts' assessment.
A controversial memorial plaque to Jonas Noreika, a Lithuanian military officer known as Generolas Vetra (General Storm), in central Vilnius was removed on Saturday morning, Aleksandras Zubriakovas, an advisor to the Vilnius mayor, confirmed it to BNS Lithuania.
