Like many of mankind’s grandest adventures, the annual production of the Lithuanian Opera Company of Chicago starts small. Each year, members of the chorus–62 in all–begin by sitting on chairs in the ...

History is not preserved by monuments or institutions. It is preserved by accuracy, accountability, and the willingness to confront what is difficult. Nowhere is that obligation more binding than in ...

Good things come in small packages. This adage has withstood the test of time beyond jewelry marketing. The latest fascinating cultural and geopolitical case study is Lithuania. The Baltic nation of 2 ...

As we approach Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, this year’s theme of “Bridging Generations” reminds us that the responsibility of remembrance lies with all of us. At the Lost Shtetl Museum, a ...

VILNIUS, Lithuania - The Energy Ministry in this Baltic nation is located across a small street from a former KGB prison, where, during decades of Soviet rule, Lithuanian dissenters were interrogated, ...

Aug. 7—A slate of festivities dedicated to Lithuanian culture, history and heritage will be observed at the 110th edition of Lithuanian Days on Saturday and Sunday. This year's version of the ...

Only once in my professional career did I assign a work of fiction to my syllabus for a history course. The story-teller was the incomparable Philip Roth and the book was “The Plot Against America,” ...

Archaeologists unearthed the central prayer platform of the main synagogue in Vilnius, Lithuania, which was destroyed by the Nazis in World War II. This summer, archaeologists in the capital of ...

During World War II, when Lithuania was occupied by Germany, an overwhelming majority of the country's Jews were killed with the active cooperation of ethnic Lithuanians. Sixty years later, ...

The Military Heritage Tourism project connects 943 historical sites across Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, weaving together a century of Baltic military history from WWI trenches to Cold War missile ...