And it is only the first course. The slices of fish placed before me – sturgeon and eel, garnished with crayfish – were staples of the Lithuanian diet during the 18th century, the waiter says.

From a background in molecular biology and medical genetics, Domarkienė now spearheads Lithuania's first ancient DNA lab, headquartered at the Medical Science Centre at Vilnius University. Along with ...

She knew the place intimately, and, moreover, she had long wanted to write about a grim part of Lithuania’s history: the extermination, by the Nazis and their Lithuanian collaborators ...