Your Daily Spiel for August 23
President Donald Trump has named Samantha Ravich as the new deputy chairwoman of the intelligence advisory board; a new trailer for the Netflix film Outlaw King, starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, has been released; and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has arrived in Lithuania ahead of the Baltic summit.
Film documents massacre of Jews in Lithuanian shtetl
On Aug. 29, 1941, Molètai residents, in partnership with Nazi officers, massacred the Jewish townspeople.
Kanovich pens a requiem for the shtetl
Grigory Kanovich’s novel Shtetl Love Song depicts the way of life in a small Lithuanian shtetl in the years leading up to the Second World War.
Author discusses Holocaust horrors in Lithuania
Ruta Vanagaitè was in Toronto and talked about her book Our People: Journey With an Enemy
Book sheds light on horrors suffered by Lithuanian Jews during war
Throughout Siberian Exile , Juilja Šukys, a Lithuanian-Canadian tells her family’s history while simultaneously shedding light on the horrors the Litvaks (Lithuanian Jews) faced during the Second World War.
