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Critiques of the Commission:
Holocaust survivors expressed concerns about the commission at its inception in 1998; PDF.
and...
Simon Wiesenthal Center statement (Jerusalem 1998)
Efraim Zuroff (Jerusalem 2005)
Efraim Zuroff (Jerusalem 2007)
Karen Sutton, professor of history at Touro College in New York, in her The Massacre of the Jews of Lithuania (see Recent Books → 2008; Background → 2008):
'Despite a number of half-hearted measures and ill-conceived historical commissions, contemporary Lithuania has much soul-searching to do to come to terms with what happened [....]' (p 209); 'Both the historical commission and the lethargy of the Lithuanian Department of Justice on the issue of alleged war criminals have elicited an enormous outpouring of opposition from the Lithuanian Jewish survivor community and — "symmetrically" — tacit approval of the general non-Jewish population' (p 211).
Geoff Vasil (Vasiliauskas) (Vilnius 2008)
Valdas Vasiliauskas (Vilnius 2008); English translation
Shimon Samuels (Paris 2009, presented at Warsaw); alternate link
Jonathan Freedland (London 2009)
Clemens Heni (Berlin 2009); PDF
Dovid Katz (Vilnius 2010); in Russian translation
NOTE: Criticism of the political campaigns waged by the commission does not imply negation of individual accomplishments by teachers, researchers, event organizers and others who may have cooperated with it over the years, or of the commission’s earlier series of academic publications.
