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Five Minutes & Six Seconds:
The Satanic Verses of Sheduva, Lithuania?
Our take:
We sincerely regret that the directors, donors, and staff of the “Museum of the Lost Shtetl” in the town of Sheduva, Lithuania have not yet spoken out freely and publicly about removal from Youtube of the five minute and six second trailer to Saulius Beržinis’s classic Holocaust documentary on Sheduva:
If this is indeed some kind of “copyright dispute” the Museum of the Lost Shtetl will rapidly re-post the trailer on Youtube with its own proposed copyright data, and indeed with any desired disclaimer (for example emphasizing that the work reflects its maker’s views rather than those of the museum). In the Solomonic spirit of love for the truth, and for life, we believe that none would complain to Youtube. Or, is this a case of the museum wanting to bury forever from the international public domain these moments from the documentary that it itself commissioned — and with it, the unvarnished truth about the Holocaust and the memories of its last witnesses in town? The truth that won’t be whitewashed away.
The five minute trailer on Yom HaShoah. The saga. Sheduva in Holocaust history over the last few years. A foreign journalist’s report withdrawn, allegedly after threats.
