“Nick Sayers’ history of the Jews in Lithuania in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is most welcome. It provides a readable and accessible account of the rich if often troubled everyday life of ordinary Litvak Jews, including the importance of emigration and the terrible destruction inflicted by the ‘Holocaust through bullets’ during the Second World War. The intimacy and power of the story is enriched by the inclusion of his family experiences in Lithuania.”

— Professor Tony Kushner,
James Parkes Professor of History at the University of Southampton.

“Nick Sayers’ account of the history of the Jews of Lithuania is compelling, readable, and also deeply shocking. The World War II wholesale involvement of ordinary Lithuanians in the murder of the Jews and widespread plundering of their possessions is nowhere near as well- known as it should be. Nor is the earlier period when Jewish life flourished. This is a history everyone should read, not only those of Lithuanian descent, Jew and non-Jew alike”.

— Baroness Julia Neuberger.

“A unique combination of intelligent discussion of the wider scholarship with insights gleaned from the author's own family history; the result is a clear and informative account of the history of Jews in Lithuania, and the devastating impact of the Holocaust, that will engage a wide readership.”

— Professor Mary Fulbrook,
Professor of German History at University College, London

“When Nick Sayers embarked on the journey to document his family’s history and the broader story of Lithuanian Jews, he was not just compiling dates and names.   For in his book The Jews of Lithuania he sought to uncover the rich tapestry of Jewish life in Lithuania, a community marked by centuries of intellectual pursuit and resilience - but also by profound tragedy.”

— Jewish Telegraph