The 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...
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