Monthly Archives: January 2024

2024 BaltHerNet conference in Vilnius

To mark the 80th anniversary of massive WWII refugee flight west, the Baltic Heritage Network is organizing an international conference Eighty Years after 1944: Then and Now. A three-day conference will take place on June 26-28, 2024 at the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, Vilnius.

Read more January 30, 2024

Munich Displaced. After 1945 and Without a Homeland

“Munich Displaced” is a pioneering exhibition focusing on displaced persons (DPs) that casts a spotlight on their different experiences during the immediate post-war period in Munich. This heterogeneous group of people had either fled to the German Reich or had been deported during WWII and had ended up in Munich in 1945.

Read more January 17, 2024

Reading Promotion Program for the Lithuanian Diaspora at its Midpoint

On November 14, 2023, representatives of the Reading Promotion Program for the Lithuanian Diaspora, run by the National Library of Lithuania in cooperation with the Lithuanian Institute of Literature and Folklore, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania, the World Lithuanian Community and the Lithuanian Publishers Association, visited Peterborough Central Library, United Kingdom.

Read more January 10, 2024