Vexed 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 ArticleUsable Memory of Holocaust Victims: N.Y. Yivo Announces Campaign for Five and...
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 ArticleSeveral 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...
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