The Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum plans to build a new visitor center at the Paneriai Memorial Complex on the outskirts of Vilnius within the next few years and to continue updating its exhibitions.
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Mark Zinger (born January 2, 1947) - Lithuanian writer, poet, publicist.
On May 4, 2018 the ground-breaking ceremony for The Lost Shtetl Museum and Memorial Complex took place in the middle of Lithuania, in Šeduva. The project is designed by professor Rainer Mahlamäki and Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects, Finland. Professor Mahlamäki attended the ceremony, as well as Dr I...
“South Africa is more Litvak than Lithuania itself,” Markas Zingeris, the Lithuanian playwright and novelist once remarked. And, as one of very few members of Lithuania’s Jewish community to remain in the country, he would know. The vast majority of Lithuanian Jews have found good reason to leave at...
The Vilnius Gaon State Jewish Museum has expressed astonishment over the Lithuanian administration's plans of founding a new Museum of Jewish History in or next to the reconstructed Vilnius Concert and Sports Palace.
If paraphrasing Dutch folk hero Till Ulenspiegel, the ash of the flight MH17 is "knocking on our hearts". However, it is knocking hardest at the consciences of those who promoted "moderate penalties" on Moscow and "peace negotiations with participation of all parties".
