Report in the Forward by Michael Casper on the annual public portrayal of Jews and Roma during the Uzgavenes carnival in central Vilnius. (Image courtesy of Michael Casper.) The report notes the attitudes of the state sponsored Center for Ethnic Activity and the Vilnius City Municipality.
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— 18 May 2012 —
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On the Town Square
- ♦ Darius Udrys in VilNews.com
- ♦ Leonidas Donskis in DefendingHistory.com
- ♦ Michael and Fausta Maass
- ♦ Efraim Zuroff in the Jerusalem Post
- ♦ Milan Chersonski: When universities and churches glorify a war criminal
- ♦ Ulla Jelpke on Gauck & the Prague Declaration
- ♦ Our reply to VilNews.com editor
- ♦ Opinion Page
- ♦ Facebook forum
- ♦ Vytenis Andriukaitis
- ♦ Evaldas Balčiūnas
- ♦ Dovid Katz
- ♦ Eglė Šilinskaitė
- ♦ Wiesenthal Center
- ♦ Woodward & Bernstein
- ♦ Olga Zabludoff
Video
In the News
- ♦ Nazi puppet “prime minister” to be re-interred & glorified
- ♦ Neo-Nazis will get European Union ‘Structural Funds’
- ♦ New documentary: ‘The Last Nazi Hunter’ (Jerusalem)
- ♦ New documentary: ‘Revising History’ (Sydney)
- ♦ Neo-Nazis’ attacks on the editor
- ♦ Latest ‘Get Money off the Litvaks’ campaign targets South Africans
- ♦ Seventy Years Declaration at the European Parliament
- ♦ Polonsky’s ‘Officer’s Cross’
- ♦ Soeren Kern on US’s ‘Envoy on antisemitism’
- ♦ 3 Lithuanian MPs write to prosecutors after Genocide Center’s official threatens murder
- ♦ Lithuanian embassy in DC pushing the “Red-Brown Com”
- ♦ Efraim Zuroff on Germany’s new president
- ♦ Estonia’s “Valentine’s Day Law”
- ♦ International petition for freedom of opinion and speech in Ukraine
- ♦ US State Dept and Lithuania
- ♦ Holocaust survivors picket Lithuanian minister in Tel Aviv
New Books
Germany in Focus
The Issues
The Solutions
Comment & Debate
- ♦ Danny Ben-Moshe in the Jerusalem Post on Israeli and South African Litvaks’ moral capitulation to Lithuanian gov’s Double Genocide machinations
- ♦ MP Andriukaitis answers Lithuania’s foreign minister
- — MP Andriukaitis vs. 3 opponents in heated radio debate on 70 Years Declaration
- — Andres Spokoiny congratulates MP Vytenis Andriukaitis
- ♦ Evaldas Balčiūnas asks why his country honors a Nazi collaborator
- ♦ Per Rudling & Jared McBride on academic freedom in Ukraine
- ♦ Simon Goldberg replies to B. Weinreich
- ♦ Lithuanian Jewish Community head assails ‘Double Genocide’ (video)
- ♦ Efraim Zuroff on glorifying the perpetrators
- ♦ Milan Chersonski on Nazism’s lingering legacy
- ♦ Dovid Katz on ‘Double Genocide’
- — on Holocaust Obfuscation
- — on 70 Years Declaration
The 70 Years Declaration
- ♦ Text and signatories (20 Jan)
- ♦ International Reaction:
- ♦ Lithuanian foreign minister’s ‘moustache response’
- ♦ Lith MP V. Andriukaitis in Delfi.lt (Vilnius)
- ♦ Milan Chersonski in DH (Vilnius)
- ♦ Roger Cohen in the New York Times
- ♦ Jewish Chronicle (London)
- ♦ Dovid Katz in AJ (New York)
- ♦ UK MP Denis MacShane (London)
- ♦ Adar Primor in Haaretz (Tel Aviv)
- ♦ Vilnius radio panel
- ♦ More media coverage
Alternative Jewish Tourism…
- ♦ Why is the Jewish anti-Nazi forest fort rapidly disappearing?
- ♦ Reconstructed shtetl — minus its Jewish component
- ♦ What the Genocide Center doesn’t want you to know
- ♦ Hidden monument in Vilnius
- ♦ School yard walls made of plundered Jewish gravestones
- ♦ ‘Museum of Genocide Victims’ that glorifies the killers & boasts antisemitic exhibits
- ♦ Strange new ‘Holocaust room’
- ♦ Druskininkai fun park spews antisemitism & obfuscation
- ♦ Revolving posters at Ponár
- ♦ Prestigious Vilnius memorial for an alleged Holocaust perpetrator
Three Months
- May 2012 (14)
- April 2012 (20)
- March 2012 (14)
March 16th in Riga
March 11th in Vilnius
- ♦ Eyewitness Report
- ♦ Monika Bončkutė in Lrytas.lt
- ♦ What does the US Embassy think?
- ♦ Editorial
- ♦ Petition calling on the Lithuanian government to cancel the march
- ♦ How a Jewish resident of Vilnius FEELS about Nazi march (video)
- ♦ London Jewish Chronicle
- ♦ Olga Zabludoff in VilNews
- ♦ Reply to Zingeris statement
March 5th in Tel Aviv
February 16th in Kaunas
Around Eastern Europe
Holocaust Exhibits
The Baltic Holocaust
Global Echoes
- Lithuania’s Prime Minister and Culture Minister Personally Signed off on €8,700 (US $11,000) Expenditure to Honor Wartime Fascist Leader
- International Christian Embassy Directors in Lithuania Speak Out on the Glorification of Ambrazevičius-Brazaitis
- Want to Honor the Head of the 1941 Nazi Puppet Government? Website Claims Seimas Will Provide Free Transportation
- Parliament’s Public Relations Department Posts Revised Schedule of Events to Honor Nazi Collaborator “Prime Minister” Juozas Ambrazevičius (Brazaitis)
- BNS Report Follows Dramatic Donskis Statement; Says Event does not have VMU “Sanction”
- Text of the Letter from MEP Leonidas Donskis on the Ambrazevičius-Brazaitis Festivities
- MEP Donskis Condemns Events to Honor Holocaust Collaborator Ambrazevičius
- Archbishop Adds his Blessing to the Nazi Collaborator being Reburied with Full Honors
- Day of Shame (May 19th) Can Still be Averted at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas
- “Correcting the Past”
- ИСПРАВЛЯЮТ ПРОШЛОЕ
- “Prime Minister” of Lithuania’s 1941 Nazi Puppet Government to be Glorified, Re-interred and Subject of a Commemorative Conference at Vytautas Magnus University
- “Moderate Litvak” Status is Conferred by his Highness, the Norwegian Property Magnate cum Editor-in-Chief of Vilnius
- Rabinowitz-Dorf PR Campaign for Lithuanian Embassy and “Fake Litvaks” Backfires Bigtime
- Neo-Nazi Youth Organization is Admitted into National “Lithuanian Council of Youth Organizations” (a recipient of European Union “Structural Funds”)
- The History of Three “Lithuanian Freedom Army” (LFA) Colonels Who Served the Nazis
- Thinking About Those Anniversaries of 2011. . .
- Baltic “Double Genocide” Discourse Slips into Naive American Jewish Articles on Lithuania
- РАЗМЫШЛЕНИЯ О ЮБИЛЕЯХ 2011-го ГОДА
- Lithuanian Government Calls for “Bigger Investments from Litvaks” as South Africa’s Glasenberg is Targeted
- No Gesture at Ponár
- Glorification of Local Holocaust Perpetrators in Lithuania
- Lithuanian Foreign Ministry Manipulates ‘Chicago Litvaks’
- Three Progressive Members of Lithuania’s Parliament Ask Prosecutors to Investigate Threats by Genocide Center’s “Chief Specialist”
- Lithuanian Neo-Nazi Leader Calls for Murder of MPs
- MP Vytenis Andriukaitis: Open Letter to Genocide Center “Chief Specialist” Ričardas Čekutis
- Discussion: Ambassador Linas Linkevičius and Geoff Vasil
- Light and Darkness Do Not Mix
- Lithuania’s Embassy in Washington Recruiting “Useful Academics” for Discredited “Red-Brown” Commission
- Some Psycho-Sexual Undercurrents of the Lithuanian Independence Day Nazi March
- Will Intellectuals in Western Countries Continue their Silence on Latvia’s Glorification of Hitler’s Waffen SS?
- 1500 Honor the Waffen SS at Riga’s Liberty Monument; Event is Praised by Latvia’s President, Condemned by Council of Europe’s Commission on Racism
- Over 1000 Neo-Nazis Fill Main Vilnius Boulevard on Lithuanian Independence Day
- Once Again, Moral Abdication at the American Embassy in Vilnius?
- Images from a Survivor Demonstration at the Dan Panorama in Tel Aviv
- Monica Lowenberg in Dialogue with Latvia’s Ambassador to the UK
- March 11th: A Grand Opportunity for the Lithuanian Human Rights Community — and the People of Vilnius
- The Posthumous Remaking of a Holocaust Perpetrator in Lithuania: Why is Jonas Noreika a National Hero?
- Latvian President, Blasting Critics of March 16th ‘Waffen SS Parade, says it’s ‘Crazy to Think Them War Criminals’
- Zingeris Statement on Planned March 11th Neo-Nazi March Fails to Mention — the Neo-Nazi March
- Lithuanian Radio Panel Discussion on the Seventy Years Declaration
- Stop the Neo-Nazi Movement in Hungary!
- Council of Europe’s Commission Against Racism and Intolerance Condemns Latvia’s Waffen SS Parades and Celebration of Hitler’s 1941 Invasion
- Joe Melamed, Head of Association of Lithuanian Jews in Israel, calls on ‘Real Litvaks’ to Stay Away from Tel Aviv ‘Gala Sham’ on March 5th
- 300 Neo-Nazis March through the Center of Kaunas on Lithuanian Independence Day; They are Addressed by Members of Parliament
- Tolerance March of 100 is Cancelled in Kaunas; Neo-Nazi March for 1000 Going Ahead
- JFN’s Andres Spokoiny in New York City Congratulates Vytenis Andriukaitis in Vilnius
- Holocaust Survivors to Demonstrate outside Tel Aviv ‘Sellout Gala’ Slated for March 5th
- The Lingering Legacy of Nazism
- A Hidden Monument in Vilnius — Hopelessly Invisible?