VYTENIS POVILAS ANDRIUKAITIS replies to the idea that there needs to be a “unified” European history (all the less so one based on Double Genocide) and demonstrates that the Seventy Years Declaration represents a consensus far beyond the left. In Defending History [originally in Delfi.lt].
YITZHAK ARAD painstakingly deconstructs the machinations of the Lithuanian government and its “red-brown” Commission in the cause of obfuscating the Holocaust via Double Genocide. In Defending History.
EVALDAS BALČIŪNAS observes the latest “Double Genocide conference” mounted by Lithuanian government bodies. In Defending History.
YEHUDA BAUER on why Double Genocide is not tenable. In The Jerusalem Post.
DANNY BEN-MOSHE on saying “No” to Double Genocide. In The Jerusalem Post.
RICHARD BRODSKY on the silence of some European governments on Latvia’s glorification of its Waffen SS. In The Huffington Post.
GORDON BROWN honors Holocaust survivor, scholar and veteran of the Jewish partisans Dr. Rachel Margolis. In The Independent.
SIMON BUTT while UK ambassador to Lithuania organized a historically important letter to Lithuanian authorities and obtained six additional ambassadors’ signatures; only parts of the letter have been released. In Defending History [UK Minister for Europe was asked to release text and refused].
DAVID CESARANI on how the UK Conservative dalliance with Latvian glorifiers of Hitlerism traduces Latvian democrats who speak out with courage. In The Guardian.
MILAN CHERSONSKI exposes the collaborator-sanitization inherent in the lavish new “Tuskulėnai Peace Park” in Vilnius. In Defending History.
RACHEL CROUCHER on how Double Genocide (ab)uses Holocaust studies as prime cover. In Defending History.
BERNARD DICHEK takes the Genocide Museum in central Vilnius as point of departure for exposing the effort to distort Holocaust history. In The Jerusalem Report.
LEONIDAS DONSKIS on learning of his country’s decision to rebury with full honors and glorify the 1941 Nazi puppet prime minister, argued that one cannot sincerely honor the victims and perpetrators concurrently. In Defending History.
PINCHOS FRIDBERG, a retired professor of physics and Vilnius Holocaust survivor, valiantly and single-handedly takes on the powerful Double Genocide industry in Vilnius. Chronology of the debate.
SIR MARTIN GILBERT resigned from the “red-brown” commission and released his letter of resignation for publication. In Defending History.
ESTHER GOLDBERG (GILBERT) on the ruses and means by which the Holocaust is downgraded in Lithuania, heroes vilified and perpetrators heroized, even as foreign Jewish dignitaries receive what they are after during glittering visits. In The Canadian Jewish News.
ELEONORA GROISMAN of the Ukrainian Council of Jewish Women on the rise of antisemitism in high political circles in Ukraine. In Defending History.
LEENA HIETANEN on Estonia’s shameful “Valentine’s Day Law” which makes way for the glorification of the Estonian Waffen SS. In Defending History.
CLEMENS HENI dissects and unmasks the Prague Declaration. In Wissenschaft und Publizistik als Kritik.
DOVID KATZ on the nature, purposes and tactics of Holocaust Obfuscation. In L. Donskis (ed), A Litmus Test Case of Modernity.
MONICA LOWENBERG on the British Foreign Office’s dalliance with the Far Right in Eastern Europe. In Hope Not Hate.
DENIS MACSHANE wrote to each of the eight Lithuanian signatories of the Seventy Years Declaration in support of their courgeous decision to sign. In Defending History.
JOHN MANN calls the 2008 Prague Declaration “a sinister document” and rejects the concomitant glorification of Nazi collaborators in Eastern Europe. In The Jewish Chronicle.
LEO RENNER replies to Marci Shore’s attempt in the New York Times to ‘mobilize’ the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising for a Polish nationalist paradigm. In American Thinker.
KAMILĖ RUPEIKAITĖ explains why the Jewish Museum refuses to join in any activities with the Genocide Research Center. In Defending History.
ANNA SHEPHERD on the remarkable situation where the heads of a parliament’s Committee on Human Rights declare they are “skeptical” about Gay Rights. In Defending History.
GEOFF VASIL (VASILIAUSKAS) provides an eyewitness report and in-depth comment on this year’s neo-Nazi march in the center of Lithuania’s capital on the nation’s March 11th independence day. In Defending History.
TOMAS VENCLOVA in the spirit of noble Lithuanian patriotism boldly debunks the idea that Hitlerist collaborators can be national heroes. In Defending History [originally in Bernardinai.lt].
OLGA ZABLUDOFF reviews Ellen Cassedy’s We Are Here. In Defending History.
EFRAIM ZUROFF reviews Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands. In Haaretz Book Supplement [other reviews here].
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