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LRT English Newsletter: Snowed-in under lockdown
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Snow in Vilnius. / E. Blaževič/LRT
LRT English Newsletter – January 29, 2021.
For our readers outside Lithuania, or in case you haven’t looked outside, we are currently snowed in.
Since the start of the week, heavy snowfall combined with relatively warm temperatures has layered the country in heavy, wet snow breaking trees and electricity wires. As of Thursday, thousands remained without power. A jogger was injured in Vilnius when a tree fell on him in Vingis park.
Meanwhile, the lockdown, together with limits on movements and contacts between households, has been extended until March. Lithuania has also ramped up entry requirements – as of Monday, people arriving from countries affected by the new coronavirus strain will need to get tested for Covid-19 and get isolated. Arrivals from almost every foreign country will have to do the test or isolate for two weeks. The list is updated every week, so we will keep you post
‘Lithuanians, not Jews, should be talking about the Holocaust’ – interview
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Jews in Vilnius ghetto, 1941 / AP
To mark the International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, LRT.lt speaks with Ruth Reches, a Jewish-Lithuanian scholar and the headmaster of the Shalom Aleichem Gymnasium in Vilnius, whose grandparents survived the Second World War.
The family of Ruth s grandfather, Samuel, owned a pharmacy in Alytus, a town in southern Lithuania. When the Second World War began, however, they decided to move to a smaller town, Veisiejai, to be closer to relatives and people they knew.
Unfortunately, the police soon knocked on their door and said that all Jews were required to return to the place where they were registered. Ruth s great-grandmother decided to go to Alytus to try and secure a permission for the family to stay in Veisiejai.