Faina Kukliansky


Faina Kukliansky is a Lithuanian lawyer and a chairwoman of the Lithuanian Jewish community.

Biography

Faina Kukliansky comes from a family of Holocaust survivors that lived in Veisiejai, Lithuania.
In 1977 she graduated from Vilnius University, and from 1977 to 1991 she worked as criminalist and prosecutor in law enforcement agencies of the Lithuanian SSR. Currently she works as an attorney and is registered as a lobbyist.
, she is a member of the Executive Committee of the European Jewish Congress. In 2013 she was elected as a Chairwoman of the Lithuanian Jewish Community; she was re-elected in 2017 and in 2021.
She speaks Yiddish, Hebrew, English, Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian.

Family

Her grandmother Zisl was killed, as well as the whole of her mother's family were killed, but her father and mother survived. Both her father and mother Klara are deceased and buried in Israel.
Her son Rafael is a sound engineer and DJ, and currently resides in Australia. Her daughter Ruth is a clinical psychologist, and resides and works in Vilnius, Lithuania.

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