Several Brushstrokes of our Rachel’s Portrait
◊ by Markas Zingeris ◊ Rachel Kostanian-Danzig, one of the founders of the Vilna Gaon Museum of Jewish History, is celebrating her venerable ninety-first birthday. She belongs to the generation that...
View ArticleA Speech Never Spoken at Plungyán (Plungė)
O P I N I O N by Dovid Katz An imaginary speech, not delivered by any of the high government officials who addressed the commemoration at the mass murder site of the Jews of Plungyán (Plungė) on 17...
View ArticleLeading Lithuanian Daily Finally Exposes Genocide Center ‘Chief Specialist’...
Lithuania’s major daily newspaper, Lietuvos rytas — Lrytas.lt — made some local journalistic history today with an extensive article by Dovilė Tuskenytė on the dangerous mainstreaming of neo-Nazism in...
View ArticleA Conference for Tolerance Day
O P I N I O N by Geoff Vasil On Wednesday, November 16th 2011, the Tolerance Center in Vilnius hosted a conference called: Tolerance and Totalitarianism. Challenges to Freedom. There were probably a...
View ArticleHow the Zingeris-Račinskas Red-Brown Commission “Gently” Pushed Along the...
O P I N I O N by Rachel Croucher (Melbourne) Although not seeking to deny the Holocaust, the ultimate consequence of the movement to redefine genocide is the equalization of National Socialist and...
View ArticleMain Lithuanian Paper Caves In to Antisemitic Sentiment as Economy Sours
O P I N I O N by Geoff Vasil A colleague sent me a link to an article on the webpage of Lietuvos rytas that appeared in their Sunday edition during the first week of December, 2011 (PDF of […]
View ArticleLithuanian Foreign Minister Berates his Country’s Parliamentarians who Signed...
The foreign minister of Lithuania did not wait until the day was over. “It is not possible to find differences between Hitler and Stalin except in their moustaches (Hitler’s was shorter).” — The...
View Article300 Neo-Nazis March through the Center of Kaunas on Lithuanian Independence...
E Y E W I T N E S S R E P O R T / O P I N I O N by Dovid Katz With attention focused on the government-permission-granted central Vilnius neo-Nazi march slated for […]
View ArticleLithuania’s Embassy in Washington Recruiting “Useful Academics” for...
The Baltic state-sponsored political infiltration into supposedly independent academic bodies concerned with Holocaust studies and education came into sharp focus in Washington this week with leakage...
View ArticleThe Red-Brown Commission in Vilnius and Its Role in the Double Genocide...
Selection of Documents on the Role of the “International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania” (“The Red-Brown Commission”) in the Double...
View ArticleYad Vashem Shocks Holocaust Survivors by Rejoining Lithuanian Government’s...
Holocaust survivors from Lithuania, and their families and advocates, are reporting feelings of “shock and betrayal” at “unbelievable reports” that Yad Vashem might again be lending legitimacy to the...
View ArticleIs this Really What You Want To Do, Mr. Executive Director of Yivo?
O P I N I O N by Milan Chersonski Milan Chersonski (Chersonskij), longtime editor (1999-2011) of Jerusalem of Lithuania, quadrilingual (English-Lithuanian-Russian-Yiddish) newspaper of the Jewish...
View ArticleOutgoing Lithuanian PM, Red-Brown Commission and Genocide Center Joining...
With the recent Lithuanian elections barely out of the way, and the ruling right-wing Homeland Union Conservatives the undisputed losers, the ultranationalist right is losing no time in pressing ahead...
View ArticleYitzhak Arad’s Paper
The Holocaust in Lithuania, and Its Obfuscation, in Lithuanian Sources by Yitzhak Arad ◊ Editor’s note: Yitzhak Arad explained that Yad Vashem had refused to publish this paper, and that he did not...
View ArticleInstead of Truth about the Holocaust – Myths about Saving Jews
O P I N I O N by Pinchos Fridberg Editor’s note [updated 27 January 2013]: Pinchos Fridberg, a native and resident of Vilnius, is a Holocaust survivor. He graduated from Vilnius University in 1961 and...
View ArticleProfessor Fridberg’s Question about Mr. Zingeris to Dr. Alperovich, and Dr....
Vilnius native and life-long resident Professor Pinchos Fridberg sent the following question to the leadership of the Jewish Community of Lithuania (JCL), and received the following answer. These...
View ArticleVexed Revival of “Red-Brown Commission”
State-sponsored Zingeris-Račinskas “red-brown commission” (officially: International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupational Regimes in Lithuania) in Vilnius...
View ArticleЯд Вашем и «Два геноцида»
O P I N I O N Authorized translation into Russian by Milan Chersonski of Danny Ben-Moshe’s op-ed, Yad Vashem and the “Two Genocides” in the 26 August 2013 edition of Jerusalem Report. Данни Бен-Моше...
View ArticleYad Vashem and the “Two Genocides”
O P I N I O N by Danny Ben-Moshe (Melbourne) This op-ed was first published in Jerusalem Report in August 2013. I remember my first visit to Yad Vashem as a 16-year-old visitor to Jerusalem. It had a...
View ArticleAn Old Jew From Vilna Writes a Letter to Moshe Rabeinu
O P I N I O N by Pinchos Fridberg Some facts In 1998 the “International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupational Regimes in Lithuania” was established by...
View ArticleHow Has Post-Soviet Lithuania Used Holocaust Remembrance to Project a “New”...
O P I N I O N by Rachel Croucher (Melbourne, Australia) Lithuania declared its restoration of independence from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) on March 11, 1990. The country then...
View ArticleN.Y. Yivo Announces Campaign for Five and a Quarter Million Dollars for new...
O P I N I O N by Dovid Katz In a widely disseminated press release today, the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research announced the launch of a fundraising campaign for US $5,250,000 for the “Yivo Vilna...
View ArticleAnnual Memorial for the Jews of Svintsyán (Švenčionys): Small but Well Done
by Defending History Staff Svintsyán [Švenčionys] — Some fifty people gathered in the forest at midday today at the mass grave at Poligón, outside Švenčioneliai (Yiddish: Svintsyánke), in northeastern...
View ArticleTranslation of a Yiddish Correspondence: The Vilna Holocaust Survivor and the...
D O C U M E N T S Editor’s note: The following is a translation of the open letter by Professor Pinchos Fridberg, a Holocaust survivor in Vilnius, and the reply by Yivo’s director, Dr. Jonathan Brent....
View ArticleDefending History Responds to Vilnius Architects’ Three “Visualizations” for...
Architects Publish Three Visualizations for National Convention Center Planned for Old Vilna Jewish Cemetery, Where Thousands Still Lie Buried But critics warn that property magnates, politicians, and...
View ArticleYiddish Loses Last Global Position as Symbolic “First Jewish Language” in...
OPINION | COMMEMORATION OF DESTROYED COMMUNITIES | YIDDISH AFFAIRS | LITVAK AFFAIRS | IDENTITY-THEFT LITVAK INDUSTRY by Dovid Katz ◊ VILNIUS—For close to three decades, Vilnius has been the...
View ArticleSept. 23rd Ponár Memorial and Pope Francis’s Visit to Vilna Ghetto Memorial
OPINION | EVENTS | CHRISTIAN-JEWISH RELATIONS | HOLOCAUST MEMORIALS | VILNIUS JEWISH LIFE ◊ ◊ VILNIUS—The two major “September 23rd” events today in Vilnius were the annual commemoration...
View ArticlePhotographic Memories of Roza Bieliauskienė (on her Shlóyshim)
OBITUARIES | LITVAK NEWS | ROZA BIELIAUSKIENĖ ◊ We mark the traditional conclusion of the thirty-day mourning period (standard Yiddish: shlóyshim, Lithuanian Yiddish shléyshim, Hebrew sheloshim)...
View ArticlePrague Declaration
Manifesto of the ‘Double Genocide’ and Holocaust Obfuscation movement See also: Opposition to the Prague Declaration; Proposal for replacement; Statement on Soviet Crimes; The Seventy Years Declaration...
View ArticleGenocide Research Center’s ‘Chief Public Relations Specialist’ Steps Up...
Ričardas Čekutis, the Chief Public Relations Specialist at the state-funded Genocide Research Center who was a leader of the March 11th 2011 neo-Nazi march on the main boulevard of the Lithuanian...
View Article‘Prague Process’ Crowd, with Lithuanian Jewish politician for cover (as...
The Prague Declaration proponents in European Parliamentary circles, having renamed their movement the ‘Prague Process’, are triumphantly reporting on their latest initiative to bring to fruition yet...
View ArticleDefendingHistory.com announces Media Chronicle of Opposition to the 2008...
DefendingHistory.com has announced the free availability of a frequently updated resource page that provides links for select major expressions of opposition to the 2008 Prague Declaration on European...
View ArticleThe Denial that is Part of Holocaust Obfuscation: Second Day of the...
by Dovid Katz The Lithuanian Holocaust broke out in the week of 22 June 1941, when the Nazis attacked the Soviet Union; it is the week when, in many locations, so-called ‘patriots’ and ‘rebels’ in...
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