Defending History Responds to Vilnius Architects’ Three “Visualizations” for “Convention Center in the Jewish Cemetery”




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 their foreign Jewish shmendriks will be haunted for generations by a rather different visualization…

LITE Vulovak on national convention center opening

Vulovak / DefendingHistory.com

A few of the luminous Jewish scholars buried on site are enumerated by Professor Sid Leiman; Professor Leiman’s essay on the current convention center project; the mounting international opposition.


 Meanwhile, Prof. Bernard Fryshman, Inspirer of US Congress Law Protecting Minorities’ Cemeteries, Critiques Pliant London Rabbis and US Gov’s “Commission to Protect American Heritage Abroad” on Failure to Oppose Planned Convention Center in the Old Vilna Jewish Cemetery

See Latest Coverage.  Prof. Fryshman’s Article.  Paper Trail.

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JULY 2016: Vilnius-based Rabbi Samuel Jacob Feffer pleads with Lithuanian political icons Emanuelis Zingeris (left) and Vytautas Landsbergis, both  signatories of the the nation’s declaration of independence, to come out against the deeply hurtful “national convention center in the old Vilna Jewish cemetery” project. PHOTO: JULIUS NORWILLA.

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Vilnius mayor’s PR machine tries to cover “the Jewish cemetery affair” with photo-ops on removal of the small Soviet-era electric power station made of Jewish gravestones, after his “Yiddish offensive” of “ludicrous” multilingual signs — all in the absence, to this day,  of  a word of polite public reply to the great Litvak rabbis who came to beg him to stand up against the project for a national convention center where thousands will cheer, sing and use toilets over a half millennium of Vilna Jewish graves. Does he really want that to be his defining image for history?  Does hecare about what the convention center project is doing to his city’s reputation? “The ghosts who will haunt his honor the mayor are not those from the electro-power station.”

THOSE AROUND THE WORLD WHO HAVE SPOKEN OUT

Will organizations that exist to protect Jewish cemeteries speak out now, howsoever mildly, as “bulldozer time” comes upon us? Maceva? Asra Kadisha? Lo Tishkach? USCPAHA [/inDH]? HFPJC? CPJCE [/in DH]? EU?

RELATED: AND WHICH ORGANIZATIONS ARE SPEAKING OUT FOR PRESERVATION OF THE BALTICS’ LAST UNDERGROUND JEWISH PARTISAN BASE?

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