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On Wednesday, at an extraordinary sitting, the Seimas granted the prosecutor general’s request and lifted MP Remigijus Žemaitaitis’ immunity from prosecution amid an investigation into antisemitic posts online.

The Seimas of Lithuania will convene for an extraordinary session on 12-15 February following a written proposal of 50 legislators.

MP Remigijus Žemaitaitis has announced he will run for president despite facing allegations of antisemitism.

On Tuesday, 16 January, Prosecutor General Nida Grunskienė addressed the Seimas requesting it to lift MP Remigijus Žemaitaitis’ immunity from prosecution in an ongoing pre-trial investigation.

The police in Lithuania have enhanced security near synagogues after Hamas terrorists attacked Israel from Gaza on Saturday.

Next week, on 10–11 October 2023, the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities are holding the international scholarly conference ‘The Intellectual Heritage of the Jews of Vilnius’, the Vilnius city municipality said in a press release.

Israel’s Minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli, on a visit to Lithuania, says the antisemitic statements of MP Remigijus Žemaitaitis are inconceivable, and is pleased that the Seimas has reacted clearly and unequivocally.

Lithuanian families who hid Jews during the Nazi occupation were honored as Righteous Among the Nations in Lithuania's second-largest city of Kaunas on Thursday at a conference dedicated to Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust during World War Two.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said one can only imagine how many generations the country and the world lost due to the Holocaust as he visited the Litvak Memorial Garden in the northwestern district of Plunge.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda on Friday presented Life Saving Cross awards to people who saved Jews from the Nazi genocide.

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.

Jan Zwartendijk, the director of Philips in Lithuania and the honorary consul for the Netherlands signed visas for Curaçao to save the lives of more than 2000 Jews from the Holocaust during WW2.

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.

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.

David Irving, a British historian convicted of denying the Holocaust, has been banned from entering Lithuania.

Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevicius said on Tuesday he would propose putting British Holocaust denier David Irving on the list of unwelcome persons in Lithuania.

Lithuania's three presidential candidates leading opinion polls do not rule out that the state may compensate Jews who lived in Lithuania before World War Two for their lost private property.