Background

Note: These links provide background to the  current debates. See also: historical background on the Holocaust per se in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

Richard Bloom Productions, The Litvak Connection.  A documentary depicting the role of Nazi collaborators during the Shoah in liquidation of Latvian and Lithuanian Jewry. Premiered on 21 May 2009 at the Delray Beach Film Festival.

Leonidas Donskis (professor, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas; member of the European Parliament from Lithuania): ‘Another word for uncertainty: antisemitism in modern Lithuania’ in NordEuropa Forum, 2006.

Leonidas Donskis: ‘The inflation of genocide’ in EuropeanVoice.com, 24 July 2009;  alternate link.

Dr Clemens Heni (Yale University), ‘Secondary antisemitism: from hard-core to soft-core denial of the Shoah’ in Jewish Political Studies Review, 20: 3-4 (Fall 2008).

Dovid Katz (professor, Vilnius University; director of research, Vilnius Yiddish Institute): ‘On three definitions: Genocide, Holocaust Denial, Holocaust Obfuscation’ in Leonidas Donskis (ed), A Litmus Test Case of Modernity. Examining Modern Sensibilities and the Public Domain in the Baltic States at the Turn of the Century [= Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe 5], Peter Lang: Bern 2009, pp 259-277.

Dr Efraim Zuroff (director, Simon Wiesenthal Center Israel Office): ‘Eastern Europe: Antisemitism in the wake of Holocaust related issues’ in Jewish Political Studies Review, 2005.