In Lithuania ... Then, World War II began. The Nazis occupied Vilnius in June 1941, Smithsonian Magazine reported, and the Jews of the city were forced into ghettos and killed. During the ...

Lithuania's parliament approved Gintautas Paluckas, deputy leader of the Social Democrats (LSDP) as prime minister in ...

NEW YORK, Sept. 27 (JTA) A man accused of handing over at least 75 Jews to Nazi death squads in Lithuania during World War II has died before the trial against him could be completed.

Family members as well as Lithuania's foreign minister attended the unveiling in the US on Sunday A monument to a Lithuanian hero in the US city of Chicago has prompted a row over World War Two ...

VILNIUS, Lithuania-- A museum in Lithuania dedicated to a Japanese diplomat who helped thousands of Jews flee Europe in the early years of World War II has been ... in Kaunas during 1939-1940.

A court in Lithuania has found a former Soviet defence minister guilty of war crimes over a deadly crackdown ... whose father was killed during the assault, told Reuters. Lithuanian President ...

(JTA) — Monday’s Google doodle is of Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese diplomat stationed in Lithuania during World War II who defied the Nazis by issuing life-saving visas to thousands of Jews.