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June 14 - the Day of Mourning and Hope in Lithuania Added 2024-06-05 On June 14 Lithuania commemorates the Day of Mourning and Hope which marks 83 years since the beginning of mass deportations of Lithuanian citizens to Siberia. We invite you to the traditional initiative „You Can Not Deport Our Memory“, which...
June 14th - the day of Mourning and Hope - commemoration event in Washington, D.C. Added 2021-06-10 Lithuania marks June 14 as a Day of Mourning and Hope. On this day, 80 years ago mass arrests and deportations of Lithuanian citizens to Siberia started. The initiative "Say it! Hear it! Remember it!" aims to preserve and honor the memory of...
Virtual Discussion "The Day of Mourning and Hope: the Living Memory of Soviet Deportees and Displaced Persons of the Baltic States”" June 14th, 12 PM (EDT)) Added 2021-06-10 On 14 June 2021 Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia will mark 80 years since the first wave of mass deportations carried out by the Soviet regime. Tens of thousands of people, including babies and elderly from the Baltic states died in Siberia and many...
The Lost Mural: An incredible story about preserving Lithuanian Jewish heritage in Burlington, Vermont Added 2020-11-16 A remarkable story of the “Lost Mural” is a story of a thriving Jewish immigrant community from the Lithuanian town Čekiškė settling in Burlington, Vermont, in the late 19th century and remarkable efforts by their descendants to preserve their...
Lithuania presents the American people with the world's smallest copy of the U.S. Capitol Building Added 2020-03-11 It took three months for Lithuanian scientists to develop a nanocopy of the U.S. Capitol Building, which is around 600,000 times smaller than its actual. A nano copy of the Statue...
Speaker of the Parliament honors the Shoah victims at the US Holocaust Museum Added 2020-03-05 Lithuanian Parliament Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis and MP Emanuelis Zingeris, the son of the survivors of the Holocaust, visited the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and honored the victims of Shoah. Lithuania Remembers the horrific tragedy and...
Expedition “Mission Siberia”- a youth initiative to honor the memory of Lithuanian deportees Added 2020-02-11 On February 10 the Embassy of Lithuania hosted a discussion with Aistė Eidukaitytė, the leader of the project „Mission Siberia”, and Marija Čyvaitė, a Lithuanian American, and a participant of „Mission Siberia’19.“ “Mission Siberia“...
Soviet crimes in post war Lithuania and beyond were examined at the discussion at the Embassy Added 2019-12-04 The discussion “Nuremberg that never happened. The case of Soviet crimes in post-war Lithuania” was organized at the Embassy of Lithuania on November 15. In his remarks Lithuanian Minister of Defence R.Karoblis noted that Lithuania celebrates the...
The Embassy and the Wilson Center organized a discussion about Jews and Lithuanians Added 2019-09-18 On September 16, in preparation to commemorate the Vilna Gaon and Lithuanian Jewish History year in 2020, the Embassy of Lithuania in Washington DC together with the Wilson Center organized a discussion on the Lithuanian and Jewish relations today...
A book on legendary Lithuanian partisan presented at the Embassy Added 2019-09-07 An inspiring discussion about Adolfas Ramanauskas (codename Vanagas), one of the leaders of Lithuanian Freedom Fighters and a symbol of Lithuania’s resistance against Soviet occupation took place at the Embassy on September 5. Dr. Arvydas...