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- Issues of the Day (Summer 2026)
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- A June 2026 Plea to Germany: Please Honor the Memory of the Vilna Jewish Partisans & Preserve their Rapidly Disappearing Fort in the Forest
- Text of Rabbi Elchonon Baron’s Letter to the Chancellor of the Office of Lithuania’s President
- Poster for the Macabre June 3rd Demo Planned by Ultranationalists at Vilnius’s Old Jewish Cemetery (Slated to become a National Conference Center)
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- Translation of Speech by MP & Former Vilnius Mayor Artūras Zuokas at Concert Supporting ‘Convention Center in Old Jewish Cemetery’
- Rabbi Sholom Ber Krinsky and DH Editor Dovid Katz at BNS Press Conference: Calling on Lithuania to Preserve Old Vilna Jewish Cemetery and Cancel ‘Convention Center in the Cemetery’ Project
- Defending History’s Rapid Response to Statement from the Seimas on Fate of Old Vilna Jewish Cemetery
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- April-May 2026 Updates in the Saga of the Old Vilna Jewish Cemetery
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- Blaming the Victims: Documents and Sources
- Text of Question and Answer in the German Parliament on Lithuania’s Last Remnants of Jewish Partisan Fort in the Forest (right next door to the new German Army Brigade)
- DH’s Social Media Response to Petition from 53 Elites Calling for ‘Convention Center in the Middle of the Old Vilna Jewish Cemetery’
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