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Day in a nutshell: Remembrance Day for the Victims of the Jewish Genocide

Monday will be sunny in Vilnius and the surrounding area, although thermometers will show a maximum of 12 degrees above zero. There is no forecast of rain. In Vilnius, on
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President presented Crosses of the Salvation of the Dying. Poles among the awarded

President Gitanas Nausėda awarded Crosses of the Salvation of the Dying [Lithuanian: Žūvančiųjų gelbėjimo kryžius, TN] to people who saved Jews from extermination during World War II. Crosses were awarded
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Tadeusz Romer – the Lithuanian Pole who saved Jews in Japan

“It was a chain of help that reached half the world” – said the Polish ambassador in Vilnius, Urszula Doroszewska, during the opening ceremony of the exhibition ‘Polish Ambassador in
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‘Paneriai Family’: We want the next generations to remember

Ceremonies devoted to commemorating crimes in Paneriai will take place in Vilnius, the Vilnius region, and Šiauliai on 22nd-26th September. The main organiser is the nationwide ‘Paneriai Family’ [Polish: Rodzina
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Celebrations in Bogušiai: The military operation “Ostra brama” was finished there

“In this place, we need to imagine what they felt,” said Artur Kondrat, the president of the Association of Home Army Soldiers being the prisoners of Soviet camps, (Stowarzyszenie Łagierników
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