Hitler's extermination of European Jews began in Lithuania in 1941. The town of Kaunas was once home to a vibrant Jewish community, the second largest in Lithuania. But in the summer 1941, the German ...

After five years of effort, two genealogists have produced the first substantive record of the Jews of Lithuania who were murdered in the Holocaust: “The Holocaust in Lithuania, 1941-1945: A Book of ...

LITHUANIA under Nazi occupation was one of the great killing fields of Europe, chiefly for the country's Jewish population which was all but annihilated. That period (and especially the first few ...

In 1944, after months of using spoons to dig an escape tunnel beneath their barracks, 40 prisoners managed to crawl through the passage and flee the largest Nazi killing site in Lithuania. In the ...