How we photographed Lithuanians' passion for democracy

This week’s top photo comes from photojournalist and Photo Desk Editor Ashlee Rezin. Follow her on X and Instagram. What makes this photo important? About 60,000 Lithuanian Americans live in the Chicago area, and my colleague Stephanie Zimmermann's late mother was one of them. She fled as a child when the Soviet reoccupation began in 1944. When Stephanie first approached me about traveling to Lithuania, to eventually produce six stories, my knee-jerk response was, "Why?" But Stephanie's…