BOLD CITIZENS WHO STAND UP FOR HISTORIC DIGNITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN LITHUANIA (AND ANYWHERE!)
When they’re afraid to publish in Balbíreshok, just bring it here…
Olga Zabludoff’s Open Letter to South African Litvaks, too hot for the South African Jewish Report, now appears here
VIDEO: RACHEL KOSTANIAN GOES ON THE RECORD ABOUT “DOUBLE GENOCIDE”
VILNIUS HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR PROF. PINCHOS FRIDBERG’S NEW ATTEMPT TO CORRECT AN ERROR; BACKGROUND
LITHUANIA TRIBUNE: SERGEJUS KANOVIČIUS EXPOSES DIVERGENT TEXTS (ENGLISH VS LITHUANIAN) IN STATE ARCHIVE’S NEW VILNA GHETTO EXHIBIT
MONICA LOWENBERG’S PETITION IS RENEWED ON EVE OF 23 SEPTEMBER
DOES IT GIVE A THRILL TO TRAMPLE OLD JEWISH GRAVESTONES ON THE WAY TO CHURCH?
Professor Karen Sutton’s Essential Book on the Lithuanian Holocaust
RECENT BOOKS:
David Bankier’s Holocaust Testimonials from Provincial Lithuania. Efraim Zuroff’s review.
Grant Arthur Gochin’s Malice, Murder, and Manipulation: One Man’s Quest for Truth.
Keith Morgan’s Ruta’s Closet. Interview with the author.
Books Reviewed. Film and Theatre. Video and Radio.
Holocaust Survivors Protest Red-Brown Commission’s Vilnius Relaunch
Commission’s renewal comes with new defamation of Dr. Yitzhak Arad, former director of Yad Vashem. major scholar, and Holocaust survivor
DANNY BEN-MOSHE IN JERUSALEM REPORT
ON JEWISH COMMUNITY’S SITE. IN RUSSIAN: DH; LZB; Obzor.lt; Reporter; Shofar7.com
Yitzhak Arad’s paper covering the Commission’s role, government obfuscation of the Holocaust and the history of the Holocaust in Lithuanian sources
Commission’s website features the Prague Declaration and promotes Double Genocide; its chairman urged his country to adopt PD. Website defames Vilnius Holocaust survivor Prof. Pinchos Fridberg for having corrected an error. Still no public condemnation of the defamation of its own founding member Yitzhak Arad (or of Dr. Rachel Margolis and Joseph Melamed)
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENT BY HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS
PAGE, CRITIQUES AND SECTION ON THE COMMISSION. Recent PR event in Vilnius
Renewed Red-Brown Commission, funded by government, has members from the Genocide Center, the parliamentary state security committee, scholars who have tried to mitigate the Nazi loyalties and Holocaust collaboration of the 1941 Lithuanian Activist Front (LAF) and Provisional Government, and, shockingly for Holocaust survivors (and under political pressure) — Yad Vashem
Resignations from the Commission (& associated bodies) on principle include Dr. Yitzhak Arad, Sir Martin Gilbert, Professor Gershon Greenberg, Professor Konrad Kwiet, Prof. Dov Levin
Commission Executive Director gives a very different spiel to Lithuanian audiences…
Are the Commission’s academic members aware of the body’s entanglement in the political imbroglio over demands for Russian compensation? Is the East European Holocaust being instrumentalized in a contemporary geopolitical context?
De-Obfuscating a Complicated Story into its Simple Core:
2013: Bernard Dichek in The Jerusalem Report. 2012: Efraim Zuroff in Haaretz. 2011: Danny Ben-Moshe’s film Rewriting History. 2010: Wendy Robbins on BBC World Service. 2010: Ricky Ben-David in the Jerusalem Post. 2010: Dovid Katz in the Guardian. 2009: Rafael Aaren in Haaretz. 2008: Arne Bengtsson in Baltic Worlds.
Survivors, Scholars and Public Figures Speak Out:
See: Yitzhak Arad ◊ Yehuda Bauer ◊ Danny Ben-Moshe ◊ Gordon Brown ◊ Abraham Cooper ◊ Pinchos Fridberg ◊ Sir Martin Gilbert ◊ Clemens Heni ◊ John Mann ◊ Jonathan Freedland ◊ Lord Janner ◊ Leigh Phillips ◊ Leyzer Ran Family ◊ Tessa Rajak ◊ Heidemarie Uhl ◊ Efraim Zuroff ◊ More voices of Holocaust Survivors
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“Double Genocide” Lands in the United States of America
BY STEALTH BOMBER OUT OF THE EAST, UNDER THE RADAR
One of the demands of the 2008 Prague Declaration is “approved” by the US
Are US officials aware of the 2012 Seventy Years Declaration response?
What is “Double Genocide”?
Holocaust Survivors from Lithuania Propose a Simple Honesty Test for Gala Sutzkever Events in Vilnius
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SEE ALSO:
TRANSLATION PRIZE SAGA; OPINIONS OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS; THE PATTERN OF DOUBLE GAMES; 2012 SLSer SADDENED THAT MILAN CHERSONSKI WAS DROPPED FROM FACULTY. WAS HIS MESSAGE UNACCEPTABLE? SEE MILAN CHERSONSKI SECTION.
WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT?
CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA: REWRITING HISTORY COMING ON WEEKEND OF 3-4 AUGUST 2013
UK: GLASGOW, LEEDS, LIVERPOOL, LONDON, MANCHESTER, NEWCASTLE IN JULY 2013
A DOZEN SYNAGOGUES SCREEN DANNY BEN-MOSHE’S REWRITING HISTORY
United Synagogue of Great Britain Signs the Seventy Years Declaration
Film’s website ◊ Reviews ◊ Seventy Years Declaration (SYD) ◊ SYD debates ◊ SYD text ◊ in European languages ◊ Danny Ben-Moshe
A European Battle for Memory — and for Human Rights
The Debate in: Australia, Canada, EU, Israel, South Africa, UK, USA
London screenings of the documentary film Rewriting History
Litvak tourism, exotic tourism and dark tourism
Racism, antisemitism and homophobia in high places: Zeppelinus is key official at the Economy Ministry; Doesn’t like our editor…
Antisemitism and Honors for Holocaust collaborators
Red-Brown Commission blues
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Evaldas Balčiūnas on Holocaust perpetrators made into “heroes”
Milan Chersonski on young Lithuanian anti-fascists who speak up against the glorification of Holocaust perpetrators
Aleksanders Feigmanis on an unmarked Holocaust grave in Riga
Leena Hietanen on Germany’s president who is getting into bed with Estonian Holocaust revisionists
Dovid Katz in Hope not Hate on glorification of Nazi war criminals by an EU/NATO government and the same country’s neo-Nazis
Geoff Vasil on sophisticated attempts to sanitize Holocaust perpetrators
Lina Žigelytė on the neo-Nazis’ hatred of feminists
Efraim Zuroff in The Times of Israel on a Latvian celebration of the anniversary of… the 1941 Nazi invasion
Explore Defending History
What it’s all abut. Articles. Authors. Countries. Sections. Opinion. Books. Film. Litvak Culture, Litvak Studies (& map). Litvak Tourism (Dark Tourism too). Lithuanian Holocaust Studies (& map with shtetl list). Human Rights & LGBT issues. Antisemitism. Local citizens who stand up. More
ISSUES INCLUDE: “Double Genocide” & “Red-Brown Commission”; “Prague Declaration” (response: Seventy Years Declaration); “heroization” of collaborators; accusations against survivors; criminalization of debate; More
German and Estonian Presidents in Photo-op at “Double Genocide” Shrine in Tallinn
LEENA HIETANEN REPORTS FROM TALLINN
Tallinn photo-op with red-brown backdrop: Estonian president Toomas Hendrik Ilves (left) with German president Joachim Gauck (Postimees—Erik Peinar). The modernist sculptural salute to red-brown equivalence, in the heart of an EU capital, showcases the curious supposed equality of the perpetrators and the liberators of Auschwitz. More red-brown iconography here.
A Vilnius Library with an Agenda?
Wyman Brent’s prophecy fulfilled?
Official invitation of the “Vilnius Jewish Public Library” to recent event glorifying the “Red-Brown Commission” without a single critic of the commission included in the panel. Geoff Vasil’s eyewitness report. The evening of elite Red-Brown Commission worship featured two top Commission operatives.
Previous event at “Jewish Library” included featured speaker from the antisemitic Genocide Center who the previous week (in the mainstream Lithuanian media) publicly belittled the Holocaust history of “Israeli [he means: Jewish] scholars” in his attempt to sanitize the LAF/PG 1941 killers of Lithuanian Jewry. English translation of his interview; Geoff Vasil replied in Defending History.
See section on the Library
IS THE “JEWISH” LIBRARY STILL COURTING NAIVE FOREIGNERS AND ‘USEFUL JEWISH IDIOTS’ IN ZINGERIAN RED-BROWN CAMPAIGN?
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From the Red-Brown Commission’s website:
Commission’s executive director calls beloved Vilnius Holocaust survivor a “liar” on Commission’s website; Exec director’s performance in Riga; at Seimas (for a different audience…); in Rewriting History.
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Background on the “Red-Brown Commission”
Vilnius: Would a “Jewish Museum” Graywash the Holocaust?
RELATED: DARK TOURISM (FOCUSED ON THE ADULATION FOR HOLOCAUST COLLABORATORS THAT LEADS TO SANITIZATION AND GLORIFICATION); WHAT WERE THE INTENTIONS OF THE LITHUANIAN ACTIVIST FRONT (LAF) BEFORE WAR BROKE OUT? MORE. 2011 EVENTS TO HONOR THEM…
SEE ARTICLES BY EVALDAS BALCIUNAS AND MILAN CHERSONSKI