Lithuanian President Refinances Red-Brown Commission

Yad Vashem is Pressed by Foreign Ministry to Join as Holocaust Survivors Protest, after Years of Dissent; Rapid Descent into Morass of Lithuanian-Russian Politics

INTERNATIONAL REACTION: DefendingHistory; Lithuanian Holocaust Survivors in Israel issue statement and open letter; Survivor families (USA); Dr. Clemens Heni (Berlin).

BUT VILNIUS US EMBASSY’S JONATHAN BERGER ISSUES STATEMENT PRAISING THE COMMISSION.

LAST YAD VASHEM MEMBER OF THE COMMISSION, A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR WHO JOINED THE ANTI-NAZI RESISTANCE, WAS CALLED A “WAR CRIMINAL” BY LITHUANIAN PROSECUTORS; STILL NO PUBLIC APOLOGY.

PART OF A NEW 2012-13 CAMPAIGN FOR HOLOCAUST OBFUSCATION AND “DOUBLE GENOCIDE” IN THE EU. PROPOSALS DEMAND “MONITORING” OF SITES  (DEFENDING HISTORY ?) AND FOR EUROPE NOT TO “CONTRAST” NAZI AND SOVIET REGIMES.

Lithuanian government is triumphant (first, second and third statement) over revival of its Commission that propels the Prague Declaration campaign for “equalization” of Nazi and Soviet crimes, and that obfuscates the early atrocities of the Lithuanian Holocaust. Director of the state-purged “Vilnius Yiddish Institute” explains the  Commission’s purposes.

SOME FOREIGN MEMBERS HAVE BEEN HONORED BY THE SAME GOVERNMENT THAT FINANCES THE COMMISSION. AN ATTEMPT TO PURCHASE LEGITIMACY FOR HOLOCAUST REVISIONISM?

SURVIVORS ISSUE PROTEST, RELEASE THEIR LETTER TO HEAD OF YAD VASHEM

BNS PRESS RELEASES AGAIN DEFAME FORMER COMMISSION MEMBER YITZHAK ARAD; COMMISSION, A PROMOTER OF PRAGUE DECLARATION, IS SILENT ON DEFAMATION OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS, AND STATE GLORIFICATION OF 1941 NAZI PUPPET PM. COMMISSION’S EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR DENIES EARLY ATROCITIES; ITS CHAIRMAN WAS THE ONLY JEW IN EUROPE TO SIGN THE PRAGUE DECLARATION. SIR MARTIN GILBERT & OTHERS RESIGNED ON PRINCIPLE.