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‘Lithuanians, not Jews, should be talking about the Holocaust’ – interview 246 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. ....
In memoriam Irena Veisaitė: ‘I never doubted that I was Jewish’ 176 Irena Veisaitė / LRT Last Friday, Irena Veisaitė, a Jewish-Lithuanian literary scholar and Holocaust survivor, passed away at the age of 92. She had Covid-19. LRT.lt presents excerpts from interviews with Veisaitė collected in the book by Aurimas Švedas, Life Should Be Transparent. Born in Kaunas in 1928, Veisaitė was a known intellectual, theatre scholar, and human rights activist. Veisaitė s mother died in the Kaunas Ghetto during World War Two. She herself was later sheltered by a non-Jewish family. After the war, Veisaitė earned a doctorate in Leningrad in 1963 with a dissertation on the poetry of Heinrich Heine and was a lecturer at Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences from 1953 to 1997. ....
Lithuanian scholar and Holocaust survivor Irena Veisaitė passes away at 92 420 Irena Veisaitė / LRT Irena Veisaitė, a Lithuanian Jewish literary scholar and Holocaust survivor, has passed away aged 92. Her family confirmed that she had Covid-19. Veisaitė s death was confirmed to LRT.lt by her friend Audra Žukaitytė on Friday. Born in Kaunas in 1928, Veisaitė was a known intellectual, theatre scholar, and human rights activist Veisaitė s mother died in the Kaunas Getho during World War Two. She herself was later sheltered by a non-Jewish family. After the war, Veisaitė earned a doctorate in Leningrad in 1963 with a dissertation on the poetry of Heinrich Heine, and was a lecturer at the teaching college in Vilnius from 1953 to 1997. ....