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Defending History
25 April 2018
Vol. IX, No. 3153
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Recent Years
- ♦ Three Yiddish institutions in Vilnius…
- ♦ New section on the Old Vilna Jewish Cemetery and its fate
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- ♦ Michael Shafir on Holocaust deflection and obfuscation in Hungary (and beyond)
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- ♦ Litvak Links page relaunched
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- ♦ Nationalist critique in Vilnius on Rūta Vanagaitė’s Holocaust remembrance project
- — Lithuania Tribune (Eng. Delfi) report
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- ♦ Debate over plans for congress and entertainment hall on Vilna’s Old Jewish Cemetery site
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- ♦ Will Yiddish poetry serve Neocon politics at SLS?
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- ♦ Geoff Vasil reviews Lithuanian TV show with viewers’ votes on whether “the Jews should return”…
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- ♦ VIDEO: Would a nation’s president and its one Jewish MP honor Holocaust-era fascist police volunteers alongside Shoah victims?
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- ♦ Josh Cohen has advice for Ukraine in Foreign Policy magazine
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- ♦ Rachel Kostanian speaks out on integrity and future of Holocaust commemoration in Lithuania
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- ♦ Vilna Holocaust survivor writes to head of NY Yivo about Red-Brown Commission; director replies
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- ♦ Andrius Kulikauskas explores the role of Lithuania’s 1941 leaders in the Holocaust
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- ♦ Hungarian Holocaust museum leaves out “C word” (collaboration)
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- ♦ Poets rise to the occasion
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More
- ♦ USA page
- ♦ Aleksandras Bosas (1951—2014), valiant poet
- ♦ Strange tale of Yiddish, Vilnius, the WJC and ORT
- ♦ Hungary
- ♦ Latvia
- ♦ Ukraine
- ♦ Free Speech
- ♦ Film and video
- ♦ Books in the debate
- ♦ New section: Lithuanian citizens speak out with courage
- ♦ New section: Christian-Jewish Relations
- ♦ New section: Obituaries
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Debate Flourishes
- ♦ Free speech in Paris? Efraim Zuroff slams Latvian veto of UNESCO Holocaust exhibit in French capital
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- ♦ One-sided coverage in Canada of Ukraine’s far right?
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- ♦ Auschwitz debates rage on
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- ♦ Czech president decries Ukraine’s choice of World War II fascists as “national heroes”
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- ♦ Wiesenthal Center protests event featuring Genocide Center maestro at a Jewish memorial event
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The Years and The Sites
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Far & Wide
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Survivors & Memory
- ♦ Dobke Yonis of Zezmer dies in Vilnius at 102
- ♦ What brings Anatoly to Vilnius from faraway Brest
- ♦ Zoya’s death leaves husband Meishke the last Jew in Svintsyán
- ♦ The bottle that waited in the attic 70 years to remind us of its unknown owner
- ♦ Meilach Stalevich turns 90
- ♦ Vilnius Holocaust survivor Pinchos Fridberg will not remain silent at distortion of history
- ♦ Nor will Shavl survivor Rachel Kostanian, former director of the Green House Holocaust exhibit
- ♦ Nor will flight survivor Milan Chersonski, former editor of Jewish community’s “Jerusalem of Lithuania”
- ♦ Survivors in Israel say no to abuse of Sutzkever’s legacy
- ♦ More from Holocaust survivors
- ♦ Survivor, resistance hero, scholar: Yitzhak Arad unravels the obfuscation of history
- ♦ Petitions by 2nd gen survivor Monica Lowenberg
- ♦ Let’s celebrate the bold Lithuanian citizens who speak up with courage
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The Baltic Holocaust
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Battle of Ideas
- • Bernard Dichek on the unfolding debate
- • Vytenis Andriukaitis on the freedom of history
- • Yitzhak Arad on Holocaust Obfuscation
- • Disagreeing with Snyder’s “Bloodlands”
- • Danny Ben-Moshe on Double Genocide
- • Leonidas Donskis on honoring of collaborators
- • Dovid Katz on three definitions
- • Monica Lowenberg on UK policy
- • Efraim Zuroff on Israeli policy