Standing between Laima Ardaviciene and me in Kėdainiai, Lithuania on 15 June this year. Simon passed away last week and was laid to rest on the 18th December 2019.
Pope honours victims of Holocaust, Soviet terror in Lithuania
Pope honours victims of Holocaust, Soviet terror in Lithuania
Pope Francis on Sunday paid homage to Holocaust victims who perished in the Vilnius ghetto, 75 years to the day after the Nazis liquidated it, and remembered those who risked and lost their lives to challenge the Soviet regime in Lithuania.
Who Are Lithuania’s Heroes Today? Å kirpa, Noreika or the Righteous Gentiles?
Who Are Lithuania’s Heroes Today? Å kirpa, Noreika or the Righteous Gentiles?
Former ghetto prisoners, members of the Lithuanian Jewish Community, members of international Jewish organizations, ambassadors from Israel and other countries
The Vilna Ghetto[a] was a World War II Jewish ghetto established and operated by Nazi Germany in the city of Vilnius in the territory of Nazi-administered Reichskommissariat Ostland.[1] During the some two years of its existence, starvation, disease, street executions, maltreatment, and deportations to concentration camps and extermination camps reduced the Ghetto’s population from an estimated 40,000 to zero. Only several hundred people managed to survive, mostly by hiding in the forests surrounding the city, joining Soviet partisans,[2][3] or sheltering with sympathetic locals.
With Sania Kerbelis, Head of Siauliai JC and Arturas Taicas, Head of Ukmerge JCThe rental bikes.
Meeting the community at the yummy lunch
L’chaimWith Aleksandras Rostovskis and Rasella Galiniene
At Rasella’s House
Shavelers – What a lovely, warm and hospitable community! Thank you!
Šiauliai
Šiauliai – Wikipedia
Šiauliai is the fourth largest city in Lithuania, with a population of 107,086. From 1994 to 2010 it was the capital of Šiauliai County. Unofficially, the city is the capital of Northern Lithuania.
