A railway track will also be constructed on the sections Palemonas–Kaunas–Jiesia and Palemonas–HES–Rokai–Jiesia. Credit: RB Rail AS. The specific solutions have been approved for the Kaunas railway ...

For me, an invited Jewish journalist from Israel, most prominent in my mind is how this Lithuanian city would relate to both the multiple achievements of its Jewish community and its Holocaust memory ...

With its medieval Old Town and baroque monastery sitting alongside a modernist ensemble recently awarded World Heritage status, Kaunas is the perfect place to unravel the architectural paradoxes of ...

The 1941 Lietukis garage massacre in Kaunas, Lithuania, was among the Holocaust’s most heavily photographed “aktions” against Jews, but many of the city’s current inhabitants have never heard of the ...

This property testifies to the rapid urbanization that transformed the provincial town of Kaunas into a modern city that became Lithuania’s provisional capital between the First and Second World Wars.

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Before Jews in Lithuania’s Kaunas Ghetto took up arms to resist the Nazis, the community’s adolescents helped rescue Torah scrolls and other books in response to the Germans’ so-called “Books Aktion.” ...