“From Generation To Generation Your Heroism Will Be Always Remembered.”
Ninety-five percent of Lithuania’s Jewish population was murdered during the Holocaust. Most lie in unmarked mass graves scattered across forests, fields, and ravines; others perished in ghettos, camps, or along deportation routes across Europe. In countless cases—including our own—we do not know where our family members were killed, nor where their remains rest. This absence is not unique. It is one of the defining wounds of the Shoah in Lithuania.
Ninety-five percent of Lithuania’s Jewish population was murdered during the Holocaust. Most lie in unmarked mass graves scattered across forests, fields, and ravines; others perished in ghettos, camps, or along deportation routes across Europe.
In countless cases—including our own—we do not know where our family members were killed, nor where their remains rest. This absence is not unique. It is one of the defining wounds of the Shoah in Lithuania.
The Gens Family Project was created in response to this loss—not only to remember, but to actively restore what was deliberately erased. We are a research-driven memorial initiative dedicated to documenting Jewish lives in Lithuania before, during, and after the Holocaust, grounding remembrance in primary sources, survivor testimony, and archival evidence. Our work transforms fragments—documents, photographs, names, testimonies—into coherent histories that can be preserved, taught, and shared.
Unlike traditional memorials, the Gens Family Project functions as a living archive. Our research spans Lithuanian, German, Israeli, and American archives; mass-murder sites; survivor memoirs; and family collections that have never before been made public. We work directly with historians, museums, archivists, and descendants to recover lost biographies and restore historical context to places where Jewish presence has been obscured or silenced.
At the heart of our work is a simple conviction: memory must be protected not only in words, but in places. That is why we partner with institutions such as the Vilna Gaon Museum of Jewish History and support the preservation of endangered Holocaust sites and exhibitions. These buildings are not symbolic—they are evidence. When they decay, historical truth itself becomes vulnerable.
Your donation directly supports:
- Archival research and documentation of Lithuanian Jewish families
- Preservation and restoration of Holocaust-related sites and exhibitions
- Educational materials, publications, and public history projects
- Survivor-centered remembrance that resists distortion and denial
This work is urgent. Survivors are passing. Buildings are deteriorating. Documents are fragile. Every year that passes risks the permanent loss of irreplaceable history.
By donating to the Gens Family Project, you are not only honoring those who were murdered—you are helping ensure that their lives are remembered with accuracy, dignity, and permanence. You become part of an unbroken chain of remembrance, carrying history forward so that future generations do not inherit silence.
This is remembrance as responsibility.
This is memory as action.
All donations will be used to fulfill our mission of commemorating Lithuania’s Holocaust victims.
Gens Family Project is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization recognized by the IRS. We will send you a receipt once your donation is received. For alternative methods of payment, please contact us at info@gensfamily.org.