Posts Tagged: Lithuania Holocaust
The Remarkable — and Tragic — History of a Ukrainian Jewish Town
Located approximately 130 miles south of Kyiv on the Umanka River, Uman is a well-known city that was part of Poland-Lithuania until the 1793 Partition...
New Documentary Examines the Murder of Jews by Latvians and Lithuanians in the Holocaust
In one scene from the powerful and horrific documentary “Baltic Truth,” Riga Ghetto survivor Marger Vesterman plays the piano to the tune of a song...
Lithuanian Government Engaging in ‘Holocaust Denial,’ Says Author of Book Exposing Her Grandfather’s Past as Nazi Collaborator
An American journalist whose latest book is an emotional account of her grandfather's role in the Holocaust of Lithuanian Jews under Nazi occupation has accused...
Holocaust Revisionist Confirmed as New Head of State-Sponsored ‘Genocide Center’ in Lithuania
A revisionist historian whose work on World War II has been harshly criticized by Jewish experts on the Holocaust in Lithuania has been confirmed as...
Revisionist Historian Who Glorifies Nazi Collaborators Is Nominated as Head of State-Sponsored Genocide Center in Lithuania
A historian lionized by far right groups in Lithuania for glorifying collaborators with the occupying Nazis during World War II is set become the new...
How Does One Hurt and Humiliate a Person (or a People)?
How does one hurt and humiliate a person (or a people)? By actions. 2020 has been declared “The Year of the Vilna Gaon and the Jewish Heritage”...
Play on Lithuanian WWII-Era Collaborators Sparks Controversy
JNS.org - Two years after Our People; Journey With an Enemy was taken off the shelves in Lithuania because of its allegations of collaboration between the local population...
Lithuania’s Past, Antisemitism, and Israel
Lithuanians generally prefer to approach their own history by honoring their fighters for resisting Soviet rule -- and ignoring their active collaboration with the Nazis....
Lithuania Admits Its Citizens Murdered Jews During the Holocaust
JNS.org - The government of Lithuania has officially accepted responsibility for the mass murder of Jews carried out by Lithuanian citizens during the Holocaust, according to...
Pre-Holocaust ID Cards of Thousands of Jews Discovered in Lithuania
JNS.org - Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum archivists found some 26,000 previously unknown identification cards belonging to Jewish citizens in the national archives in Kaunas...
YIVO, Lithuania, and Lies About the Holocaust
Nobody could love or respect the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research more than I do. It was founded as the Yiddish Scientific Institute in Vilna,...
Remapping the Vilnius Ghetto
"How people perished in the ghetto—that I understand; what I cannot understand is how they lived there," writes Second World War refugee and esteemed Yiddish...
Why Was a Dead Nazi War Criminal Promoted to Colonel? An Open Letter to the Lithuanian Ambassador to Belarus
Ten years ago, suspected Nazi war criminal Juozas Krikštaponis (Krištaponis) was posthumously promoted to the rank of colonel of the Lithuanian army, via presidential decree. Presidential...
An Open Letter to Yale History Professor Timothy Snyder
Professor Timothy Snyder of Yale University, the author of the famous (and controversial) book "Bloodlands" was brought to Lithuania last week for a...
