Daily Archives: 17 July 2015

Lithuania’s Chief Rabbi Halts Excavation of  Holocaust Mass Grave Site in Šiauliai (Shavl)

Posted on 17 July 2015 by Defending History

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Protest statement in DH by Rabbi Chaim Burshtein, Chief Rabbi of Lithuania, is reported by JTA and backed up by Asra Kadisha’s protest. Authorities back down but only after much disturbance of victims’ remains and lurid, humiliating photographs in local media. Jewish Community praises halt in desecration. Statement by Community head Faina Kukliansky. Report in JHE.

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Conference of European Rabbis (CER) Writes to Lithuania’s President on Mass Grave near Šiauliai (Shavl)

Posted on 17 July 2015 by Defending History

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The following letter was sent today by the president of the Conference of  European Rabbis to the president of Lithuania.

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