17, 18, 19, 20 May 2012: Four Days of Glorification of the “Prime Minister” of Lithuania’s 1941 Nazi Puppet Government who Signed: The Order for all Kaunas Jews to be herded into a Ghetto; The Order for “All Means” against Jews (but not in public); The Order to set up a Concentration Camp for Lithuanian Jews

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Self-inflicted wound? Government honor guard at Vilnius International Airport on 17 May 2012 meeting the remains of the head of the Nazi puppet government of 1941 who signed the order confirming that all the city’s Jewish residents be herded into a ghetto within four weeks

Remains of 1941 Fascist Leader Met by Honor Guard at Vilnius Airport, as Mayor of Kaunas Dismisses Criticism; Office of the Prime Minister, who signed off on the €8,700 ($11,000) Expenditure to Honor the Wartime Fascist, Defends Events; Jewish Community & Vilna Gaon Museum Issue Joint Protest

Parliament’s “Public Relations Department” Publishes Revised Schedule of Events; Saturday Memorial Conference Now at “Venue to be Announced”; Website Announces Free Transportation to Kaunas Events

KRYSTYNA ANNA STEIGER’S INTERNATIONAL PETITION

Archbishop Metropolitan, who effusively praised the Nazi collaborator, to officiate at the reburial mass in Kaunas on Sunday; ICEJ leaders offer another opinion

Authorization for 30,000 litas (c. 8,700 euros) for the reburial and celebrations was personally signed by the prime minister and the minister of culture in March 2012 (PDF here, item no. 2)

“VilNews.com” gives its readers a “cooked” version as “news”;  Darius Udrys’s bold corrective is called “opinion”

Protest Sign prepared by Dr. Vilhjálmur Örn Vilhjálmsson

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INTERNATIONAL REACTION MOUNTING:

JEWISH COMMUNITY OF LITHUANIA & VILNA GAON MUSEUMOFER ADERET IN HAARETZFOLLOW-UP ◊ MILAN CHERSONSKI ◊ LEONIDAS DONSKIS ◊ MICHAEL AND FAUSTA MAASS ◊ DARIUS UDRYS IN VILNEWS.COMEFRAIM ZUROFF IN THE JERUSALEM POST

BBC  NEWS  EUROPE ◊ 15MIN.LT/BNS ◊ RZECZPOSPOLITA ◊ WIESENTHAL CENTER

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Remains of Ambrazevičius (Brazaitis) Flown from Putnam, Connecticut for Four Days of Celebratory Events (17, 18, 19, 20 May) in Lithuania

including

Reburial in the Altar of the Church of the Resurrection in Kaunas

and

May 19th Memorial Conference at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas; University’s rector protests to parliament and venue of conference changed:  BNS report;  Haaretz update & 2nd update;  JTA.

Conference program is posted on the Genocide Center’s website (English here)

Not a word about the victims, at a conference to honor the Nazi puppet prime minister who signed the order for the Jews of Kaunas to be locked up in a ghetto. Later that year (29 October 1941), close to ten thousand Jews from the ghetto were murdered at the nearby Ninth Fort, the largest one-day massacre in the history of the Baltic states. Around 95% of Lithuanian Jewry perished in the Holocaust, the highest percentage in Europe.

“This compromises Lithuania in the eyes of the world.”

— Dr. Shimon Alperovich, chairperson of the Jewish Community of Lithuania

U.S. Embassy persuaded to  sponsor a one-sided history conference on Nazi and Soviet crimes  (featuring Tim Snyder & Jonathan Brent) the same week, in some views in order to confer legitimacy locally while diverting international attention from the week’s “historic events” which are “meant” to enter the record uncontroversially

Signature of Juozas Ambrazevičius (Brazaitis) on the 7 July 1941 order confirming the German demand that all Jews in Kaunas  be “emptied out” into a ghetto in the Vilijampolė section within four weeks [English translation here]. His name appears atop this document, as well as the 27 June 1941 appeal for “all means” against the Jews (but avoiding “public executions”); and the 30 June 1941 order for setting up a concentration camp for Jews.

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Video promo for whitewash “documentary” to premiere on 20 May, 4:30 PM at the Romuva cinema, Laisvės alėja 54, Kaunas following the reburial in the altar of the Church of the Ascension

Festivities seen as revival of earlier campaign to sanitize and glorify local 1941 fascist authorities

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HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS “DEVASTATED”

DefendingHistory.com comments:

“Lithuania has magnificent real heroes of 1941: the inspirational people who saved an innocent neighbor from the LAF and Provisional Government’s reign of genocide, starting with the war’s first week. They are that year’s heroes of history who should be honored. May their families live to see streets and squares named for them.”

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Riga

According to report, pupils in a kindergarten are taught to admire the Waffen SS; video of the session here

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Berlin

Will President Gauck Distance Himself from the “Prague Declaration” that he signed in 2008?

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Strasbourg

70 Years’ Declaration” is Presented to the President of the European Parliament in Strasbourg

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The Planet

Join the conversation today.  On our affiliated Facebook forum.

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Estonia

“Valentine’s Day Law” Passed by Parliament will Glorify Country’s Wartime Waffen SS

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Australia

NEW DOCUMENTARY FILM ON THE BATTLE OF IDEAS, FROM THE VILNIUS YIDDISH INSTITUTE TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT IN STRASBOURG

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Europe

 

The Seventy Years Declaration Joins the European Conversation

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Quisling Litvaks?

It seems to some that the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry continues to seek naive Jewish acolytes to help cover for ongoing obfuscation: pursuit of the Double Genocide model of WWII history (e.g. the “Prague Declaration”), while deflecting attention from: whitewash of the murderous role of the Lithuanian Activist Front (LAF); projects to actually honor the killers; state-countenanced antisemitism.  “Fake Litvak”  initiatives include events and op-eds that omit the living Jewish Community of Lithuania, as well as the genuinely valiant members of the Lithuanian parliament who signed the Seventy Years Declaration and were rapidly trashed by the current foreign minister. . .

♦Embassy anoints vassal “King of  Sunflower Litvaks” (9 Nov 2011).

♦H. Felstein & A. Oleck in the Jerusalem Post (23 Nov 2011).  Replies: D. Katz (28 Nov 2011;  24 Apr 2012).

♦E. Cassedy in Haaretz (12 April 2012).

♦Sunflower Litvaks do the Windy City (15 April 2012).  Reply: DefendingHistory.com (15 April 2012)

♦H. Felstein in the Times of Israel (17 April 2012).

♦E. Cassedy in the Baltimore Sun (18 April 2012).  Reply: O. Zabludoff (23 April 2012).

DISCUSSION IN VILNEWS.COM  (AS HTM)

BUT THE EMBASSY NEVER REPLIED TO THE 2,156 PEOPLE (INCLUDING MANY HUNDREDS OF LITHUANIAN CITIZENS) WHO PETITIONED FOR THE CANCELLATION OF THE CAPITAL’S  NEO-NAZI MARCH ON THE NATION’S INDEPENDENCE DAY.  IT CONTINUES…

RECRUITING FOR THE RED-BROWN COMMISSION.

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Murder Threat in Vilnius

Three MPs File Petition with Prosecutors

after a “chief specialist” at the state-sponsored Genocide Center in Vilnius, himself a co-organizer of neo-Nazi marches, threatens the MPs by name (on Facebook) for their championing tolerance, inclusiveness and equality of all citizens.

Two of the three threatened MPs are signatories of the Seventy Years Declaration

MP VYTENIS POVILAS ANDRIUKAITIS SPEAKS OUT

MP ANDRIUKAITIS’S EARLIER REPLY TO THE FOREIGN MINISTER

GEOFF VASIL COMMENTS

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Seventy Years Declaration Joins the European Conversation

The Seventy Years Declaration

Solemnly commemorates the Holocaust and reaffirms human rights of all people. Opposes the Prague Declaration and ‘Double Genocide’ politics. Rejects glorification of the Waffen SS of Estonia and Latvia and the Lithuanian Activist Front (LAF).

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TEXT AND LIST OF FOUNDING SIGNATORIES

PRESENTED TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

SYD TEXT IN FRENCH;  GERMAN;  LITHUANIAN;  RUSSIAN;  LIST OF UK SIGNATORIES;  LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ATTACKS SIGNATORIES WITHIN MINUTES

MEDIA COVERAGE

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Danny Ben-Moshe launches SYD in the Jerusalem PostSYD published. Lithuanian Foreign Minister responds in minutes with infamous “moustache comparison” of Hitler and Stalin, later attacks Lithuanian parliamentarians who signed. UK MP Denis MacShane congratulates the Lithuanian Eight who signed. Vytenis Andriukaitis, signatory of nation’s Declaration of Independence, replies to FM. Roger Cohen in the New York Times. Gang-up on Lithuanian radio panelAJForwardHaaretzJC.

British parliamentarian tells Lithuanian signatories of the 70 Years Declaration:

“I know it must be lonely to take a stand on such a controversial subject but wanted to write to you to say you are not alone and every decent British and European citizen stands with you.”

— UK MP Denis MacShane

DefendingHistory.com congratulates the Lithuanian parliamentarians among the founding 70 signatories of the Seventy Years Declaration for their courage, integrity, love of all their country’s peoples, and genuine commitment to European values:

Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis, MP

Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, MEP

Justinas Karosas, MP

Justas Paleckis, MEP

Marija Aušrinė Pavilionienė, MP

Julius Sabatauskas, MP

Algirdas Sysas, MP

Birutė Vėsaitė, MP


 

Holocaust Documentary Slammed for ‘Just Telling the Truth’

New documentary by acclaimed Lithuanian film maker Saulius Beržinis, on the Holocaust in Jurbarkas (Yúrberik), is slammed by town’s leaders — for telling the truth, and for “failing” to frame the Holocaust in a Red=Brown obfuscationist framework . . .

Daiva Bartkienė’s “Cat in a Sack” article in local newspaper (18 March 2012)

Erika Baronaitė in Lietuvos rytas (3 April 2012)

Comment by Geoff Vasil

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1000 Neo-Nazi Marchers Fill Central Vilnius on Lithuania’s Independence Day; They are Addressed by Two Members of Parliament

Marcher sports a designer swastika on her handbag at the March 11th 2012 neo-Nazi march on Gedimino Prospect in the heart of Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital.

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EYEWITNESS REPORT & IMAGES

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Latvian President Blesses Waffen SS March in Riga; Council of Europe’s Racism Unit Condemns Event; 1500 Turn Out

The president of Latvia endorsed this year’s Waffen SS march, “bowing his head” to his nation’s Waffen SS.  Latvia’s ambassador to the UK defended the march.  Council of Europe condemns the event.  UK MP John Mann.  UK Parliament Early Day Motion 2866. 1500 Turn Out.

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A wreath for Holocaust survivors was covered by the Waffen SS logo by the event’s organizers. Two anti-Nazi activists exposed the wreath again for a short time, before they were removed by police.

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Foreign protesters included Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center (Jerusalem), Joel Rubinfeld of the European Jewish Parliament (Brussels), Monica Lowenberg, creator of the anti-march international petition (London).

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EYEWITNESS REPORT & IMAGES.  2ND REPORT.  MEDIA COVERAGE.

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Lithuanian Holocaust Survivors Protest Tel Aviv ‘Gala’

Kovno Ghetto Survivor and Resistance Hero Joe Melamed, 87, Leads March 5th Picket Line Against “Sellout Gala” at the Tel Aviv Dan Panorama

Lithuanian Foreign Minister and Brothers Zingeris are Greeted by Protesting Holocaust Survivors

A FIRST-TIME PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN LEYVIK HOUSE YIDDISH CULTURE CENTER, THE SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER ISRAEL OFFICE AND THE ASSOCIATION OF LITHUANIAN JEWS IN ISRAEL

Report on YNET.  The Times of Israel.  15min.lt.  Itongadol.com.  Agencia Judia.  Forverts (Yiddish Forward).    Background.  More.

“Where is your conscience?” Holocaust survivor Joe Melamed, 87, himself interviewed last August by agents of Interpol at the Lithuanian authorities’ insistence, at right, carries a (Hebrew) sign: “Dear Participants in the Dinner! Where is your conscience? Where’s solidarity with our Holocaust survivors, resistance fighters and partisans?” A survivor from Šiauliai (Shavl), at left, sports a (Yiddish) sign: “We stand with our heroic partisans. Against neo-Nazism. We are here!” (this last phrase, Mir záynen dó, is from the Vilna-origin Jewish partisan hymn). Photo: Bella Bryks-Klein.

 

Ažubalis, STOP the Neo-Nazi Parade in Vilnius” reads the sign at right, a reference to this coming Sunday’s neo-Nazi march in the center of the Lithuanian capital, currently the subject of a Washington DC based international petition. Sign at left refers to the still unretracted campaigns of defamation against heroic Holocaust survivors who escaped to join the anti-Nazi resistance in the forests of Lithuania. Second from left is Dr. Efraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center Israel office, who has exposed Baltic revisionism for decades. Photo: Bella Bryks-Klein.

 

Editor and Yiddish cultural leader, Bella Bryks-Klein, carries a sign asking the Lithuanian government to stop its program of activities to glorify Nazi collaborators like the “Lithuanian Activist Front” (LAF) of 1941, which unleashed slaughter in dozens of towns before the Nazis even arrived, and indicated its intentions in advance of the outbreak of war.

 

Some of the 18 protesters, led by Joe Melamed (first from left), chairman of the Association of Lithuanian Jews in Israel, who greeted Lithuanian Foreign Minister Ažubalis at a Tel Aviv “gala” at which he was guest of honor. It is just over a month since Ažubalis belittled his parliamentary colleagues who signed the Seventy Years Declaration marking the Wannsee anniversary in January, when he made his infamous comment on moustache length being the one difference between Hitler and Stalin. Back in 2010 the Jewish community in Lithuania called a special meeting to draft a statement protesting a major antisemitic outburst by the foreign minister. There are seven major areas of unresolved Lithuanian-Jewish issues. Photo: Bella Bryks-Klein.  

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Reaction — Zero

Lithuanian Government, Human Rights Monitors, Antisemitism Envoys, Western Embassies Fail to React to Outrages

1: Neo-Nazi marches on national holidays in the city centers of Kaunas (16 February 2012) and Vilnius (11 March 2012). Both with state-issued permits and both addressed by members of parliament.

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2: Front page of mass circulation newspaper on ‘The Jews’ being tax cheats with large image of a local rabbi (21 December 2011). REPORT HERE.

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But the Simon Wiesenthal Center rapidly reacted to both. See here and here.

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Petition to Stop the Neo-Nazi March in Central Vilnius

PETITION!

TEXT HERE

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Since authorities began issuing permits in 2008 for the annual neo-Nazi march on the main boulevard in the heart of the capital city, on the nation’s March 11th independence day, it has featured the “Lithuanian swastika” where the extra lines signify incorporation of a medieval national symbol into the swastika as a symbol of Lithuanian fascism of the twenty-first century. Around ninety-five percent of Lithuanian Jewry was murdered during the Holocaust, the highest proportion in Europe. Last year’s march included a member of parliament and an official of the state-sponsored Genocide Research Center.  VIDEO from the 2008 march.

Washington DC author Olga Zabludoff launches international petition to the Lithuanian government, addressed to its ambassador to the United States to

STOP THE NAZI MARCH

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Media Coverage

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Will Estonia Clear the Air?

Estonian Policy in Confusion as Leaders Fail to Clarify whether New ‘Valentine’s Day Law’ Honoring ‘Heroes’ includes the Country’s Waffen SS

No more no less: Estonia's defense minister, Mart Laar, has himself published a book glorifying his nation's Nazi-collaborating units

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The New Law Honors Heroes of Resistance to Nazi and Soviet Regimes

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REPORTS:

Run-up to the bill (8 Jan 2012);  Delfi Estonia (14 Feb 2012);  Junge Welt (29 Feb)

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Courageous Achievements

Brussels — Valiant members of parliament and the European Parliament from Latvia, Lithuania and other East European Countries sign the Seventy Years Declaration

Kaunas — Daiva Čepauskaitė’s new play: ‘Day and Night’

Šiauliai — Evaldas Balčiūnas is translating the memoir of a Jewish woman partisan of the Vilna Ghetto

Vilnius Social Democratic MP Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis boldly responds to the latest Holocaust-related article by the foreign minister of Lithuania

Vilnius — In the face of untoward pressure over many years, Rachel Kostanian has maintained steadfast historical accuracy in the Green House Holocaust department of the State Jewish Museum; Esther Goldberg’s reports I & II

Vilnius — Books and a documentary of lasting value produced by the House of Memory, led by Linas Vildžiūnas, Vaidotas Reivytis and others; projects curtailed by the government’s ‘red-brown establishment’ monopolizing resources

Vilnius — Saulius Beržinis’s Kopa Studios producing series of uniquely spin-free documentaries on the Holocaust

Riga — Rabbi Menachem Barkahan’s New Holocaust Museum

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A Shock for Survivors and Visitors to the Lithuanian Capital

New ‘Holocaust Room’ in the Cellar of Vilnius’s State Sponsored Genocide Museum Sanitizes the Local Fascists who Unleashed the Genocide of Lithuanian Jewry

 

 Culmination of a year of government events glorifying the Lithuanian Activist Front (LAF) and other Hitlerist groups that initiated (and whose members became the backbone of) the annihilation of the country’s Jewish minority

LAF leaflets set out plans for genocide prior to the German invasion. Historians on the 1941 campaign of mass murderSurvivors testifyMapRecent nationalist glorification. Now, the new Holocaust Room in the cellar of a major state museum in an EU capital has this to say:

Year to commemorate the perpetrators ran parallel with a year to commemorate the Holocaust, too; One in a series of ‘dual tracks’ to satisfy at once the antisemitic, Holocaust-revisionist Far Right and foreign Jewish groups

PR: ‘Fake Litvak’ initiatives (Identity Theft) & Double Games
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ANTISEMITIC EXHIBITS IN MAIN HALL OF GENOCIDE MUSEUM DISPLAYED AS BEFORE, WITH NO CURATORIAL COMMENT

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MEANWHILE, IN WASHINGTON DC, NEW JEWISH ‘SUNFLOWER’ GROUP MANIPULATED BY LITHUANIAN EMBASSY TO DISTORT AND TRIVIALIZE THE 1941 GENOCIDE OF THE JEWISH POPULATION AS ‘FREEDOM FROM THE SOVIETS’  AND — ‘AT THE PERIL OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY’; RESPONSE HERE.
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Admirers Celebrate

90th Birthday of Dr. Rachel Margolis

Tel Aviv attorney Joe Melamed, head of the Association of Lithuanian Jews, celebrating Dr. Rachel Margolis's 90th birthday in Rechovot

Left her safe haven with righteous Christians to join her family in the Vilna Ghetto. Joined the Jewish underground anti-Nazi resistance. Witness to creation of the Yiddish Partisan Hymn.

Escaped to join the partisans and fought valiantly against the Nazis in the forests of Lithuania. The only one in her family to survive the Holocaust.

Volunteered for the short-lived Jewish museum after the war.

Dedicated half a century to Biology at Vilnius University.

Helped establish the Green House Holocaust exhibit. Rediscovered, deciphered and published Kazimierz Sakowicz’s diary of Ponár. Author of a remarkable memoir. Beloved guide, lecturer and teacher on Jewish Vilna and the Holocaust.

Target of a campaign of defamation by Vilnius prosecutors, the “Lithuanian Human Rights Association” and other far-right Holocaust-revisionist elites.

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MORE INFORMATION AND TRIBUTES:

FORMER UK PRIME MINISTER GORDON BROWN ♦ 5 MEMBERS OF THE US CONGRESS ♦ ACADEMIC STUDIES PRESS ♦ KEENE STATE COLLEGE ♦ SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE ♦ LORD JANNER OF BRAUNSTONE ♦  LATE LITHUANIAN PRIME MINISTER ALGIRDAS BRAZAUSKAS ♦ ISRAELI AMBASSADOR CHEN IVRI APTER ♦ ADL DIRECTOR ABRAHAM FOXMAN ♦ NCSJ ♦ METRO WEST HOLOCAUST COUNCIL ♦ LEIVICK HOUSE TEL AVIV ♦ JEWISH CHRONICLE ♦ ALGEMEINER JOURNAL (& 2) ♦ RACHEL MARGOLIS.COM

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Coverage in DefendingHistory.com:

OVERVIEWS HERE & HERE;  7 MAY 2008;  19 JUNE 200928 OCTOBER 2009;  27 JANUARY 2010;  28 OCTOBER 2010;  3 JANUARY 2011;  5 MAY 2011;  28 AUGUST 2011;  23 SEPTEMBER 2011.

Two Vilna natives: Dr. Margolis prepares to sing the Jewish partisan hymn together with Jerusalem attorney (and Yiddish singer) Diana Shapiro

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Believe it or not. . .

Vilnius Prosecutors Launch Campaign against Another Holocaust Survivor, 86, this time via — Interpol!

Joe Melamed

Joe Melamed in his Tel Aviv office

At Lithuanian prosecutors’ demand, Israeli Interpol liaison officers speak with Mr. Melamed about the ‘accusations’

Report in Haaretz by Yossi Melman

Yad Vashem withdraws invitations to visiting minster and resident ambassador for Vilna Ghetto commemoration; Coverage in Haaretz by Yossi Melman; Associated Press (→ CBS News, Fox, MSNBC, Washington Post, YahooNews etc); JTA (→ WJC, JJ, Juedische.at, etc); Mishpacha

Three British MPs file Early Day Motion 2161 to protest the Lithuanian government’s action

DefendingHistory.com reports here and here

  Geoff Vasil in the Jewish Chronicle

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A Moral Epidemic??

Local Nazi Collaborators & Holocaust Perpetrators Honored in Parts of Eastern Europe

IS THIS REALLY HOW THEY SHOULD NOW BE RECYCLED BY ‘NEW EUROPE’?

Croatia

Estonia

Hungary

Latvia

Lithuania

Romania

Ukraine

EFRAIM ZUROFF IN HAARETZ 

DefendingHistory.com section on the glorification of Holocaust collaborators and perpetrators in Eastern Europe

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When a Major Scholar’s Book is Abused by East European Nationalists

Vilnius book event for the Lithuanian edition is held at the Foreign Ministry with a disturbing speech by the director of the History Institute

East European nationalists are abusing the book

Select critiques of Bloodlands

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May 5th 2012 made it 4 Years since Police Came Looking for Two Women Holocaust Survivors


REPORT ON THE THREE YEAR MARK STILL HOLDS


Holocaust Survivors:

Not Charged — Not Cleared

With non-stop defamation: Lithuanian ‘Human Rights’ [!] Association calls for  ‘sentencing’ of named ‘citizens of Jewish nationality’ for ‘organizing a massive slaughter’; Document is here; Comment herehere.

UNITED STATES CONGRESSMEN STILL WAITING FOR A MEANINGFUL REPLY

FORMER BRITISH PRIME MINISTER GORDON BROWN HONORS DR RACHEL MARGOLIS

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Litvak Studies in progress

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Ukraine: Fascists, Collaborators, Perpetrators — Honored

DETAILS HERE

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Latvia (back in 2011): 2,500 Turn Out to Hail Country’s Waffen-SS

Increased Turnout for This Year’s Waffen-SS March in Riga

DETAILS HERE AND HERE

COMMENT HERE AND HERE

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PLANS TO HONOR HOLOCAUST MASS MURDERER AND RE-INTER  HIS REMAINS IN RIGA

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Estonia (back in 2011): Hitler’s Invasion Celebrated

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Roundup

Select Debates, Essays, Broadcasts, Appreciation

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Lithuania’s Prime Minister and Culture Minister Personally Signed off on €8,700 (US $11,000) Expenditure to Honor Wartime Fascist Leader

Members of Lithuania’s small and fragile remnant Jewish community were left in shock as word was spreading that quite secretively, the country’s prime minister and culture minister personally signed off this past March on the 30,000 litas allotment for the expenses of reburying and honoring the wartime fascist leader, Juozas Ambrazevičius (later Brazaitis). Ambrazevičius, as the Nazi puppet “prime minister” during the first weeks of the war in 1941, signed the orders confirming “all means” against Jews (though calling for public executions to halt), for a concentration camp for Lithuania’s Jews, and for the herding of all of Kaunas’s Jews into a ghetto within four weeks (English translation here).

The Lithuanian Jewish Community, in partnership with the Vilna Gaon Jewish museum, has issued a statement of protest against government sponsorship of the events.

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