- Unique Tallinn museum will keep apologists of communism at bay
The opening of an international research centre and museum of communist crimes to be located in Tallinn’s notorious Patarei sea fortress-prison complex has been announced by the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory.
- Kolvart: Not correct to call helping Red Army veterans propaganda
Mihhail Kolvart, chairman of the council of Tallinn, has published a response to critics who have described his joining a program aimed to help the Red Army veterans living in Estonia as blatant campaigning and propaganda, in which he says that dismissing the campaign as propaganda is not appropriate.
- How Martin Luther still inspires today
It all began 500 years ago.
- Forgetfulness is an incurable and dangerous disease
Grigory Kanovich is one of Lithuania’s most prominent novelists.
- Mission Siberia 2017: Cherishing memories of Lithuanians who perished in exile
What initially was a handful of patriotic zealots ready to do anything for the sake of the homeland, it has grown over the years into a well-stitched annual mission of painstakingly selected participants willing to eternalize the memories of those perished in exile.
- Back to Shul
The English photographer and Kaunas resident Richard Schofield recently completed a 12-day tour of Lithuania where he visited and photographed the remaining 100 or so synagogues and Jewish prayer houses in the country for a new photo book he’s in the process of writing in preparation for the centenary of Lithuanian independence in 2018.
- “Unfinished Justice: Restitution and Remembrance” put Baltics in unfavorable spotlight
The failure of 12 countries, including Poland and Bosnia and Herzegovina, to return or compensate for Jewish property stolen during the Holocaust has been condemned in the European Parliament.
- On the mission to close the loopholes of Lithuanian Jews’ history
Violeta Davoliute, a visiting professor at the Institute of Political Science and International Relations at Vilnius University and the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris and a former research associate at Yale University, is doing exactly that: scooping up what has been omitted, purposely or not, in Lithuanian Jews’ history and putting out what would otherwise be tedious historic material through eye-catchingly crafted articles and speeches.