A leading news portal attacks visiting Israeli soldiers for a planned visit to the Last Jewish Anti-Nazi Fort, where around 100 Jewish escapees from the Vilna Ghetto found refuge in 1943 and 1944. The fort’s remnants are rapidly disappearing. Campaign mounted for its preservation.
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- ♦ Gov okays March 11th neo-Nazi march in central Vilnius, raising participant limit to 2000
- ♦ Holocaust Survivors write to Energy Minister Uzi Landau
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- Antony Polonsky Returns to Brandeis ‘Knighted’ by Lithuanian President’s Cross of the Officer of the Order — for helping the Baltic State’s Holocaust PR Campaign
- UK MP Denis MacShane Rushes to Defense of Lithuanian Parliamentarians who Signed Seventy Years Declaration; Slams Foreign Minister’s Hitler-Stalin ‘Joke’
- The Waffen-SS as Freedom Fighters
- “Civil” Discourse in Ukraine
- Lithuanian Foreign Minister Berates his Country’s Parliamentarians who Signed ‘70 Years Declaration’; Says Hitler = Stalin Except for Length of their Moustaches
- The Seventy Years Declaration
- Free Speech Reaffirmed by Vilnius Judge in Algirdas Paleckis Case
- Box Coverage on Algirdas Paleckis case to Midday 18 January 2012
- Mainstream Daily ‘Lietuvos rytas’: A New High-End Home for Antisemitism in Lithuania?
- Jerusalem-Kabul Exchange of Ideas: Dr. Efraim Zuroff, head of Wiesenthal Center’s Israel Office, Replies to EU’s Ambassador to Afghanistan, Vygaudas Ušackas
- ‘Prague Declaration’ is Removed from Own Site (www.PragueDeclaration.org)
- Some Worrying Slippage at ‘Bernardinai.lt’?
- Estonian Defense Ministry Denies Glorifying Nazi Collaborators, but Statement Fails to Mention Country’s Waffen SS
- Respectfully Disagreeing with Aspects of Snyder’s ‘Bloodlands’
- EU Ambassador to Afghanistan Writes in the Wall Street Journal that Nazi Rule in Lithuania was “A Few Years’ Respite from the Communists”
- A Reconstructed Shtetl — Minus its Jewish Component
- 2012 New Year’s Resolution for the Prime Ministers of the Baltic States
- Petras Stankeras Rides Again: Rehabilitating Fascism for the Lithuanian Mainstream
- Václav Havel and the Prague Declaration
- Popular Daily has Full Front Page Spread on ‘The Jews’
- Lithuanian Ministry of Defense Honors ‘Lithuanian Activist Front’ (LAF) Nazi Collaborators (announced without comment on ‘Bernardinai’)
- Mainstream Lithuanian news portal, Delfi.lt, Again Publishes Antisemitic ‘Ethnographic History’
- Why Shouldn’t Lithuanian People See the Monument I Helped Place in Vilnius?
- ‘Double Genocide’ Permeates Local Antisemitic Discourse in Report on Efraim Zuroff’s Operation Last Chance II in Berlin
- Wyman Brent’s Speech at the Opening of the Vilnius Jewish Public Library
- Why I am Translating Rozka Korczak’s Vilna Ghetto Memoir
- Old Stones Speak to Young Pupils: Jewish Gravestones in the Walls of a Vilnius School Yard
- Suspense in Vilnius as Paleckis Verdict Day Nears
- Main Lithuanian Paper Caves In to Antisemitic Sentiment as Economy Sours
- ‘Day and Night’ is an Epoch-Making Play for Modern Lithuania
- Second Mass Circulation Daily Prints Antisemitic Yarn, Revised and with New Images
- Three Page Antisemitic Mini-Tract runs in Lithuania’s Mainstream Daily
- Yad Vashem’s Exhibit on the Holocaust in Lithuania
- ‘That Awful Summer’ — Conference at Efrata College in Jerusalem
- Owning a Massacre: ‘Ukraine’s Katyn’
- How the Zingeris-Račinskas Red-Brown Commission “Gently” Pushed Along the Conversion of Holocaust Studies into Double Genocide Studies
- Strasti za Banderoju (‘Bandera Passion’)
- A Conference for Tolerance Day
- Yivo and Lithuania: Rolling summary coverage to 9 Nov 2011
- Open Debate, Open Society, and Secret Societies
- Is it Science, or Football?
- Tripletalk on the New ‘Looted Books Room’ at the National Library in Vilnius
- Volhynia and the Noxious Weed of Antisemitism
- Hungarian National Day Event in Vilnius Celebrates Lithuanian ‘Forest Brother’; Two Local Fascists Invited
- No Limits to ‘History Shenanigans’?
- Glorifiers of Pro-Hitler Fascist Groups March in Lviv
- Lithuanian Foreign Ministry Makes New Red-Brown Pronouncement, Omitting ‘Detail’: The Holocaust; Prime Minister Agrees, Citing Red-Brown Equation
- Red-Equals-Brown is a Historical Aberration
- Nationalists’ Roundtable Discussion Invites Jewish Community Chairman to ‘Speak about Lithuania’
- Dr. Shimon Alperovich, chairman of Lithuania’s Jewish Community, Interviewed on Balsas.lt