Aktyvus jaunimas (Active Youth), a youth group based in Vilnius, is trying to give newly arrived refugees a taste of their new home at the reception centre in Rukla, near Kaunas, Lithuania‘s second ...

MINSK, 17 August (BelTA) – More evidence of the violence the Lithuanian side demonstrates towards refugees has been uncovered, representatives of the State Border Committee of Belarus told BelTA.

Nishri was among the crowd of Jewish refugees who had gathered outside of Sugihara’s home in the Lithuanian city of Kaunas (then known in English as Kovno) in July 1940, desperate to flee the growing ...