Lithuania’s Foreign Ministry marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day, presents two exhibitions
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania marked the International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January and organised a presentation of the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum’s two traveling exhibitions – “Lithuanian Jews behind the Iron Curtain” and the “The Vilna Ghetto Posters”.
The Vice-Minister Mantvydas Bekešius opened the exhibitions and thanked the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum for cooperation and efforts to increase the public interest in the Holocaust, the Lithuanian Jewish culture and traditions.
The Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum’s cutrators - Aušra Rožankevičiūtė and Neringa Latvytė-Gustaitienė – presented the exhibitions.
The United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution on 1 November 2005 to designate 27 January as the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. On 27 January 1945, the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp complex was liberated in Poland.
Today, the Vice-Minister Bekešius also visited the Choral Synagogue of Vilnius, where he took part in a commemorative event and read names of the victims of the Holocaust together with members of the Jewish Community of Lithuania.
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