A British project to help Jews to find the graves of thousands of their relatives murdered by the Nazis in Lithuania was launched yesterday.
The project will set up hundreds of signposts at the site of mass graves where an estimated 200,000 Jews were hastily buried during the Second World War.
Before the war Lithuania and neighbouring Latvia had thriving Jewish communities. When the Germans invaded in 1941, they rounded up tens of thousands, led them into the forest and shot them.
In Lithuania only 4,000 Jews survive, 3,000 of them in the capital, Vilnius.
The Holocaust Education Trust, which is behind the effort to uncover and mark the graves, will also issue maps of the sites and a booklet in the coming months.
On the BBC Radio Four Today programme yesterday, Lord Janner, the trust's chairman, said: "It is wonderful that modern-day Lithuania has come to terms with its history.
"And it is wonderful that people like myself - and there are tens of thousands of us in the United Kingdom - whose relatives were murdered - at least now know where their relatives are buried."