OPINION | 2023-2024 “WORKING GROUP” ON VILNA CEMETERY | WHO ARE THE MEMBERS? | OLD VILNA JEWISH CEMETERY AT PIRAMÓNT | OPPOSITION TO CONVENTION CENTER | THE “CPJCE” | CEMETERIES & MASS GRAVES | HUMAN RIGHTS
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VILNIUS—The major Jewish Orthodox publication Yated Ne’eman featured a full page protest against the most recent Lithuanian government plans to desecrate the Old Vilna Jewish Cemetery at Piramónt (in the Shnípishok/Šnipiškės district) by retaining, remodeling and converting a huge and widely hated Soviet dump plonked in the middle of the cemetery into a modern de facto museum commemorating an array of Jewish, Lithuanian and general historical issues. Religious Jews and secular humanists alike continue to argue that the cemetery belongs to those buried in it, and thousands are still buried in this cemetery in plots purchased in perpetuity by their families.
No Christian Lithuanian cemetery would be subject to such declaration. For news of the last year, including the appointment of an international commission, and Orwellian texts released, and the courageous historic dissent of one American member of the commission, please see Defending History’s continuous coverage of the last year, itself part of the much longer history (which Defending History has been covering in detail since 2015).
Today’s Yated Ne’eman protest is available as PDF, and is reproduced below. It was received as two PDFs. Please use the handles in the upper left hand corner to turn pages.
Yated Neeman 22 April 2024