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ISSUES

Note: Ordering not in order of importance. Weighting of specific issues in is in the heart of the beholder and depends very much on individual interests and priorities.

1. Sanitization and glorification of Holocaust perpetrators: the 1941 Lithuanian Activist Front (LAF) and the status of June 23rd  and the the First Week of the Lithuanian Holocaust.

2. Preservation of the remnants of the Jewish Partisan Fort in the forest next door to the brand new German Brigade. Legacy and last wish of the late Fania Yocheles Brantsovsky.

3. Equal human rights include the right of the dead of annihilated minorities to be left in peace: Fate of the Old Vilna Jewish Cemetery and international appeals to demolish the Soviet ruin on site and lovingly restore the cemetery. Knowledge of recent machinations.

4. Preservation of the museum contents of the Green House (Pamenkalnio St. 12) intact, whether on site or moved to a distinct portion of the new Holocaust museum under construction. Eastern Europe’s last Jewish museum created entirely by Holocaust survivors themselves. Be sure to visit the Green House when in Vilnius, including the room dedicated to prewar Jewish culture and life.

5. Combating the East European history revisionism known as “Double Genocide” that equates Nazi and Soviet crimes in a construct whose corollaries include glorification of perpetrators, vilification of Holocaust survivors who joined the anti-Nazi resistance, downgrade of the Holocaust, renewal of antisemitic tropes of Jewish responsibilities for communism, and a descent of morally clear public memory into a concerted effort to obfuscate the Holocaust in East European and world history.

6. Opposition to East European laws that criminalize opinions that reject Double Genocide revisionism. Preservation of Western standards of Freedom of Speech.

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PROJECTS

1. The Lithuanian Yiddish Video Archive (LYVA).

2. The Yiddish in Ukraine Video Archive (YUVA).

3. Online Mini Museum of Old Jewish Vilna.

4. Online Mini Museum of Jewish Life in Interwar Lithuania.

5. The Yiddish Cultural Dictionary (YCD).

6. Bible translation into Lithuanian Yiddish.

7. Yizkor Book for Mikháleshik.

8. Production of a manual of Ashkenazic Hebrew.