On Wednesday, the March of the Living procession will be held for the eleventh time in Panerai to honor the memory of the victims of the Holocaust.
The march will traditionally take place from the Paneriai railway of the station to the Paneriai Memorial. This is part of the road that the prisoners of the Vilnius ghetto used to walk before the massacre in the Paneriu forest.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius will also participate in the event.
During the Second World War, the Nazis, often assisted by Lithuanian collaborators, killed about 90 percent of the population. from more than 200 thousand Lithuanian Jews.
About 8 people were saved during the war. Lithuanian Jews, approximately the same number remained alive because they managed to retreat to the depths of the Soviet Union.
Yad Vashem, a Holocaust study center located in Israel, has recognized about 900 Lithuanians as the righteous people of the world for rescuing Jews.
Currently, about 3 thousand people live in Lithuania. Jews.
