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12 October 2026
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- Welcome to Defending History! Issues & Projects in Autumn-Winter 2026
- A First Roster: 403 Rūdninkai (Rudnitsker) Jewish Partisans
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- Dr. Andrius Kulikauskas’s Remarks at Sept. 2026 Seimas Opening of Exhibition on Old Jewish Cemetery
- ‘Respect Cemeteries’ Group That Prepared Current Seimas Exhibition Asks: What is Lithuania Choosing Today?
- Lithuania’s MP Emanuelis Zingeris Issues Major Statement on Fate of the Old Vilna Jewish Cemetery in Šnipiškės District of Modern Vilnius
- Video of Seimas Opening of Historic Exhibition on Past, Present, Future of the Old Vilna Jewish Cemetery
- A Veteran German Public Figure Speaks Out—and Suddenly Withdraws—Statement on the Last Jewish Partisan Remnant in Lithuania
- When Will ‘Made in Vilnius’ Start Reporting ‘Both Sides of the Story’?
- All Welcome at Seimas Exhibition on Old Vilna Jewish Cemetery; Public Opening on 17 Sept. 2026
- Andrius Kulikauskas: Please Ask Lithuania’s Seimas to Recognize Vilnius’s Oldest Jewish Cemetery!
- Opinion: Assault at Vilnius Synagogue Gate
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- German Bundestag and Government Statements on the Rapidly Sinking Remnants of the Last Jewish Partisan Fort in Lithuania
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- Respect Cemeteries Issues Brochure for Campaign to Inspire Seimas to Respect and Preserve the Old Vilna Jewish Cemetery
- Seimas Committee Receives ‘Truly Many Letters’ Defending Jewish Cemetery, Postpones Deliberation to Autumn Session
- New Brussels Monument (‘An Echo in Time’): A Ruse to Bring Double Genocide Holocaust Revisionism to the Gates of the European Parliament?
- Document Discovered: Soviet Act of 22 Oct. 1940 Seizing (Stealing) the Old Vilna Jewish Cemetery from Vilnius Jewish Community
- Transcript of the 12 May 2026 Seimas Debate on the Old Vilna Jewish Cemetery at Piramont (Shnípishok, Šnipiškės)