A thriving Jewish center for hundreds of years, the city saw its Jews decimated by the Nazis and local collaborators, a history not all Lithuanians are willing to confront
Dayan was invited as the keynote speaker for a special meeting of the Lithuanian Parliament and to participate in commemorative activities honoring the Holocaust victims in Lithuania.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky spoke via video link to the Lithuanian Parliament on Friday on the occasion of Freedom Day - the 32nd anniversary of the storming of the Vilnius TV Tower by Soviet troops after the proclamation of Lithuania's secession from the USSR.