Holocaust

A Trip to Paneriai: Vilnius’ Jewish Past Unearthed
Paneriai Memorial
Vilnius, Lithuania

A Trip to Paneriai: Vilnius’ Jewish Past Unearthed

Paneriai Memorial As promised in my last post about the two Soviet occupations of Lithuania, I want to devote an entire post to the Nazi occupation of Lithuania between 1941-44 that wiped out nearly all of Lithuania’s Jewish community. It’s easy to stroll around Vilnius and observe all…

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May 12, 2020
An Occupied Latvia: The Soviet and Nazi Occupations of Rīga
Inside the former KGB Headquarters in Rīga
Rīga, Latvia

An Occupied Latvia: The Soviet and Nazi Occupations of Rīga

Inside the former KGB Headquarters in Rīga There’s no way around it: by and large, the past 100 years of Latvian history have not been happy ones. Like her Baltic neighbors, Latvia took advantage of the Russian Revolution in 1917 to declare its own independence in 1918. Kārlis…

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February 11, 2020