The recent decisions of Vilnius City Municipality have fuelled a heated public debate and have demonstrated once again that historical memory is not an issue to be addressed by a single municipality, but rather a matter to be salved at the national level.

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Emanuelis Zingeris, Chairman of the International Historical Commission, in his Facebook profile expressed support for Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius for removing a plaque honoring Jonas Noreika and reminded about undisputed statement issued by the sub-Commission for the evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi Occupation Regime and the Holocaust earlier this year regarding Jonas Noreika.  More…

At the end of June, a one-day seminar was held in Vilnius for the teachers to prepare them for an international seminar – an internship in the Yad Vashem institution in Israel. More…