Lithuania was mentioned at the 2017 European Union awards ceremony for cultural heritage protection. The Lost Shtetl Project was one of three restoration projects in Europe to receive honorable mention. The Lost Shtetl Project has restored the old Jewish cemetery in Šeduva, Lithuania.

Jews of Šeduva were interred there until World War II and about 1,300 headstones and fragments were discovered there, following restoration of about 800 grave stones, of which 400 have been identified, the oldest going back to 1812 and the newest 1936.

Full story in Lithuanian here.