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by Geoff Vasil
Saulius Beržinis is an astounding filmmaker. Somehow the Lithuanian director of documentaries has a knack for drawing out frank admissions on camera, even from collaborators who recount how they murdered Jews.
Beržinis has a great reputation in Holocaust studies around the world, but, as the saying goes, a prophet is often unrecognized in his native land, and the cloak of invisibility around the Lithuanian Holocaust cast by the activists in the Double Genocide industry has marginalized the documentary maker at home, where his “The Happy Faces of the Murderers” is basically unknown.
New documentary by acclaimed Lithuanian film maker Saulius Beržinis, on the Holocaust in Jurbarkas (Yúrberik), is slammed by town’s leaders — for telling the truth, and for “failing” to frame the Holocaust in a Red=Brown obfuscationist framework . . .