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Litvak Tourism
Litvak Culture
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Petitions in Progress
Krystyna Steiger on Lithuania ◊ Monica Lowenberg on Latvia ◊ and on Lithuania ◊ Olga Zabludoff on Nazi marches in central Vilnius
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English Text of Joseph Melamed’s Letter to Yad Vashem
The following is a translation of the Hebrew letter from Tel Aviv attorney Joseph Melamed, head of the Association of Lithuanian Jews, to Avner Shalev, director of Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, in reaction to news reports reporting that Yad Vashem would rejoin the Vilnius-based red-brown commission. In addition, the Association issued a statement to the media today.
Association of Lithuanian Jews in Israel
1 King David Boulevard
Tel Aviv 64953
Telephone +9723 696-4812
Fax +9723 695-4821
www.lithuanianjews.org.il
litjews@bezeqint.net
Tel Aviv, 3 September 2012
Hon. Avner Shalev
Chairman, Yad Vashem
The Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority
P.O.B. 3477
Jerusalem 91034
Shalom, Avner,
The Association of Lithuanian Jews in Israel was left in shock by the decision of Yad Vashem to renew its activities in the “International” Commission [for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupational Regimes in Lithuania].
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Joseph Melamed, Head of Lithuanian Holocaust Survivors’ Association, Releases Letter to Director of Yad Vashem
TEL AVIV—The office of the Association of Lithuanian Jews in Israel today released the text of the Hebrew letter which the ALJ’s chairman, Tel Aviv attorney Joseph Melamed, sent today to Avner Shalev, the director of Yad Vashem. Images of the letter’s two pages follow (signed letter as PDF). English translation here.
See also the separate English statement which the ALJ released to the media earlier today, following the recent news about the Lithuanian government renewing a much enlarged red-brown commission with the ostensible participation of Yad Vashem.
Posted in "Red-Brown Commission", Double Games, Double Genocide: The New Form of Holocaust Revisionism & Denial, History, Israel, Joseph Melamed, Lithuania, Litvak Affairs, News & Views, Opinion, Politics of Memory, Yad Vashem and Lithuania
Tagged Association of Lithuanian Jews, Holocaust in Lithuania, International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occpational Regimes in Lithuania, Joseph Melamed, Yad Vashem + Lithuania
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Holocaust Survivors, Based in Tel Aviv, Issue Statement on Renewal of the Red-Brown Commission
TEL AVIV—The following public statement was received at 2:15 PM Tel Aviv time from the offices of the Association of Lithuanian Jews in Israel at King David Boulevard 1. In addition, the ALJ today released the letter written by its chairman to the head of Yad Vashem (English translation here). Background.
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June 2009 Correspondence with Yad Vashem
D O C U M E N T S
After more than three years’ wait for a substantive reply to the points raised in a letter to Yad Vashem, and in light of the past week’s shocking revalations about political legitimization by Yad Vashem of the Lithuanian government’s “red-brown commission” that is the engine of Prague Declaration and Double Genocide politics in Europe, DefendingHistory is releasing the full text of the letter of 28 June 2009, and the initial reply received the following day.
In the original the images, numbered 1-7, were included as email attachments. Here they are inserted in the text. [Note: the author’s eleven-year Vilnius University affiliation ended in 2010.]
—-Original Message—–
From: Dovid Katz [mailto:dovidkatz@vilniusuniversity.net]
Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 1:17 PM
To: גביר יוסי
Cc: ‘Simon Wiesenthal Center-Israel Office’; ‘Dov Levin’; ‘Joseph Melamed’
Subject: from Dovid Katz (Vilnius University)
Greetings dear Yossi (at the moment from Tel Aviv),
Trust this finds you and all at Yad Vashem well and thriving. As you may recall, we corresponded for several months in Spring 2008. I had been (and frankly remain) disappointed that by continuing to allow Yad Vashem’s name to appear as a partner of the Lithuanian government sponsored “Red-Brown Commission” even as the falsification of history (replacement of the very notion of the Holocaust by a paradigm of two equal genocides) continues apace at the European Parliament. Parliamentarians are told: “Look, Yad Vashem is with us….” Of course Yad Vashem has no such intention, and we are in agreement that it’s important for Lithuanian teachers to be educated in Jerusalem but that should be facilitated through any of the various honest NGOs or educators, not the “Red-Brown Commission” whose major current project is passage of the “equal genocide” resolutions in the European Parliament. My two recent op-eds on the topic are in the Jewish Chronicle and Irish Times.
Posted in Documents, Double Genocide: The New Form of Holocaust Revisionism & Denial, Israel, Lithuania, Museums, News & Views, Politics of Memory, Ponár (Ponary, Paneriai), Yad Vashem and Lithuania
Tagged Avner Shalev, Chen Ivri Apter, Dovid Katz, Holocaust in Lithuania, House of Memory (Vilnius), Linas Vildziunas, Yad Vashem + Lithuania, Yossi Gevir
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Clemens Heni’s Facebook Reactions to the Red-Brown Commission’s Renewal
The following Facebook entry is reproduced here with permission of the author, Dr. Clemens Heni.
Clemens Heni shared a link.
31 August 2012
1) Dina Porat wrote a piece on the Lithuanian Holocaust years ago, https://defendinghistory.com/readinglist.
2) Her joining the Lithuanian commission makes the institutional / government betrayal coming from Jerusalem even worse: a top honest Holocaust scholar joins with distorters, obfuscationists in a commission that has a track record of throwing its honest Israeli members to the wolves (Arad!), and of using serious foreign scholars with an array of intrigue, complexity, and layered nuance that no foreigner could combat in the multimillion euro den of Holocaust Obfuscation’s European capital.
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Didier Bertin on Prague Declaration Europe
O P I N I O N
by Didier Bertin
An excerpt from Didier Bertin’s longer work dated 20 July 2012, Planetary Geopolitics and Economics Today, republished here with the author’s permission. The author heads the Society for the Promotion of a European Human Rights Model in France.
The Declarations of Prague of 3 June 2008 and of the European Parliament of 23 September 2008 and their consequences
The contents of the Declaration of Prague of 3 June 2008 and the European Parliament of 23 September 2008, whose target was to take stock of the suffering experienced by the peoples under communist regimes, finally took an ideological and partisan rightist turn.
The progressive parties could have reacted with their own statement rejecting the ideological and revisionist considerations, which focus both on an anti-communist hatred and contempt for Nazi victims and their liberators.
Posted in Didier Bertin, Double Genocide: The New Form of Holocaust Revisionism & Denial, France, News & Views, Opinion, Politics of Memory, United Nations
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Yad Vashem Shocks Holocaust Survivors by Rejoining Lithuanian Government’s “Red-Brown Commission”
Holocaust survivors from Lithuania, and their families and advocates, are reporting feelings of “shock and betrayal” at “unbelievable reports” that Yad Vashem might again be lending legitimacy to the Lithuanian government sponsored “red-brown commission.” These accounts derive from a BNS (Baltic News Service) report today that appeared in various Lithuanian media, including Alfa.lt (full translation below), reporting that the president herself signed the decree today for substantial new state investment in the commission.
The Vilnius and Jerusalem rumor mills are equally putting out the word that there had been pressure from the Israeli foreign ministry, itself pressured by the Lithuanian foreign ministry for Holocaust-revising gestures in line with the current Baltic state policy often referred to as “Double Genocide.”
UPDATES: 29 Aug 2012; 31 Aug; 31 Aug(b); 31 Aug(c); 3 Sept; 3 Sept(b) [Holocaust survivors’ statement]; 3 Sept(c) [Survivors’ letter to head of Yad Vashem]; 3 Sept(d) [in English translation].
Posted in "Red-Brown Commission", A 21st Century Campaign Against Lithuanian Holocaust Survivors?, Collaborators Glorified, Double Games, Double Genocide: The New Form of Holocaust Revisionism & Denial, Dr. Rokhl (Rachel) Margolis (1921-2015), Foreign Ministries: Holocaust Politics Abuse?, History, Israel, Lithuania, News & Views, Politics of Memory, Yad Vashem and Lithuania
Tagged Association of Lithuanian Jews, Emanuelis Zingeris, Fania Yocheles Brantsovsky, International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania, Israeli Foreign Ministry + Lithuania, Joseph Melamed, Kestutis Girnius, Rachel Margolis, Red-Brown Commission, Ronaldas Racinskas, Sarunas Liekis, Yad Vashem + Lithuania, Yitzhak Arad
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Far and Wide
Hollande on French collaboration; but Lithuanian FM wants Double Genocide to feature in EU presidency
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Wiesenthal Center Calls for Immediate Dismissal of Director of Croatian Episcopal Archives who Denies Holocaust Crimes at Jasenovac
JERUSALEM―The Simon Wiesenthal Center today called for the immediate dismissal of Dr. Stjepan Razum, director of the Episcopal Archives of the Croatian State Archives in the wake of his August 10 interview to www.hrsvijet.net in which he claimed that the figures of victims in the notorious Croatian concentration camp Jasenovac were exaggerated and a product of Serb propaganda.
In a statement issued here by its Israel director, Holocaust historian Dr. Efraim Zuroff, the Center noted that such attempts to rewrite the history of World War II in Croatia by whitewashing the horrific crimes committed by the Ustasha cannot be tolerated and are inexcusable when asserted by prominent Church officials.
According to Zuroff:
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When I Received a Response from the Genocide Center in Vilnius
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by Evaldas Balčiūnas
When I wrote about three glorified Lithuanian Freedom Army colonels who had in fact been implicated in the Holocaust, I did not realize quite how deep-rooted the shameful worship of Nazi-era war criminals has become here in Lithuania. I used to think that a few mistakes had been made due to patriotic excesses. A year has passed since that article, and I no longer feel that this is just some irksome problem “still encountered now and then”…
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The Case that Broke the Heart of a Nazi-Hunter
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by Efraim Zuroff
The following is a transcription of the text that appeared in today’s edition of The Australian.
At the end of next week, I will have spent 32 years as a “Nazi-hunter,” trying to facilitate the prosecution of those individuals who in the service of Nazi Germany or in alliance with its regime, engaged in the persecution and/or murder of innocent civilians categorized as “enemies” of the Third Reich. During that period, I have dealt with many dozens of cases of all sorts of criminals from many different nationalities and walks of life, from mass murderers to individuals who were charged with the murder of a single person.
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It’s Not Just About the New Tuskulėnai “Peace Park” in Vilnius
O P I N I O N
by Milan Chersonski
Milan Chersonski (Chersonskij), longtime editor (1999-2011) of Jerusalem of Lithuania, quadrilingual (English-Lithuanian-Russian-Yiddish) newspaper of the Jewish Community of Lithuania, was previously (1979-1999) director of the Yiddish Folk Theater of Lithuania, which in Soviet times was the USSR’s only Yiddish amateur theater company. The views he expresses in DefendingHistory are his own. This is an authorized translation from the Russian original.
Photo: Milan Chersonski at this desk at the Jewish Community of Lithuania (image © 2012 Jurgita Kunigiškytė). Milan Chersonski section.
Can you imagine a European Union / NATO government investing millions in setting up a “Peace Park” in its beautiful capital city, in memory of people buried at the site of the park, when hundreds of them were Nazi collaborators who eagerly supported the annihilation of the Jewish population of their country?
Earlier this month, VilNews.com prominently published an article by Vincas Karnila, presented as the Introduction to a series called “The Mass Graves in Tuskulėnai.” It is a panegyric to the employees of the Museum of Genocide in Vilnius and the Center for the Study of Genocide and Resistance for their tireless efforts to establish the Tuskulėnai Peace Park. Readers are informed that six articles will follow. [Update: Subsequent articles in Karnila’s series can be found in www.VilNews.com.]
We know from official sources that Soviet KGB victims were buried at Tuskulėnai from 1944 to 1947.
Karnila tells us:
Posted in "Tuskulėnai Peace Park", Arts, Bold Citizens Speak Out, Collaborators Glorified, Double Genocide: The New Form of Holocaust Revisionism & Denial, Exotic Jewish Tourism, History, Lithuania, Milan Chersonski (1937-2021), Museums, Opinion, Politics of Memory, VilNews.com, Vilnius's Genocide Center and the Genocide Museum it Manages
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Executive Director of “Red-Brown Commission” Doubts Lithuanian Jews were Killed “on a Racial Basis” Before Arrival of German Forces in 1941
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A number of viewers of the new Australian documentary film Rewriting History, by Marc Radomsky and Danny Ben-Moshe, have submitted to Defending History near-identical transcripts of a statement on camera, made to the film’s producers, by the executive director of the “International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania.”
Known for short as the “red-brown commission,” the state-sponsored body has long been opposed by Holocaust survivors and educators. The commission is responsible for Holocaust education in Lithuania, but has also taken an active political role in promoting the 2008 Prague Declaration and various details of alleged “equality” of Nazi and Soviet crimes. The commission’s website features the Prague Declaration in both English and Lithuanian.
The commission’s executive director, Ronaldas Račinskas, is quoted as saying on camera that his commission does not support “Double Genocide” but that he does support the 2008 Prague Declaration (though he concedes there are passages to be “discussed”). The problem is that the Prague Declaration is the primary document of the Double Genocide movement in Europe.
See also: Mr. Račinskas’s 2011 speech in the Lithuanian parliament; Critiques of his commission; 2015 Update: His call for investigations of Holocaust survivors who joined up with the anti-Nazi partisans.
Mr. Račinskas goes on to say, according to the transcripts provided of his Rewriting History interview:
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15 August 2016
(1) Below our pasekh tsvey yudn chapter comparing the new FRCL version with the old (combining the old FRCL with pasekh tsvey yudn from Vilna)
Remaining/other issues would be adding on some appropriate keys:
(2) the classic Yiddish hypen:
שטאָט⸗טויערן
בת⸗יהודה
Ideally this hyphen would be just a little smaller than now vis a vis the font size.
(2) Can the Hebrew / Yiddish apostrophe (perhaps unmarked, on the regular key?) be be slanted as in classic printed books, not English upright: (at the moment we’ve been pasting in an apostrophe from ‘somewhere’ (don’t know where!) as in
′ר
ער′ט
(3) Can there be classic open and closed quotes that are upper and lower:
upper (which we’ve been pasting in from ‘somewhere’)
תשע״ד
וד״ל
And classic upper and lower which we’ve not found yet:
״אַ מעשה״
The open quote (here before אַ would be BENEATH the line)?
Or do these already exist?
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PASEKH TSVEY YUDN
(1) Old FRCL with pasekh tsvey yudn inserted from Vilna:
זײַנען ווײַנשטיין דרײַ טריישאַפט
(2) NEW FRCL with adjusted pasekh tsvey yudn:
זײַנען ווײַנשטיין דרײַ טריישאַפט
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BELOW FIRST CHAPTER OF EYKHO TRANSLATION IN THE NEW FRANK RUHL CURLED LAMED WITH ADJUSTED PASEKH TSVEY YUDN. OUR PUBLISHED VERSION (FOR COMPARISON) HAS THE OLD FRCL WITH PASEKH TSVEY YUDN INSERTED BY HAND (AT https://defendinghistory.com/the-book-of-lamentations-in-lithuanian-yiddish).
(א) אֵיכָה יָשְׁבָה בָדָד
ווי אַזוי זשע זיצט זי איינע אַליין, די שטאָט, וואָס איז דאָך אַזוי גרויס געווען, אַזש אַ פולע מענטשן? ווי אַן אלמנה איז זי געוואָרן: אַזוי גרויס געווען בײַ די פעלקער, אַ פּרינצעסין פאַר די אַלע פּראָווינציעס, איז זי גאָר אין אַ צאָלערקע פון צינדז פאַרוואַנדלט געוואָרן:
(ב) בָּכוֹ תִבְכֶּה בַּלַיְלָה
אַז וויינען וויינט זי באַנאַכט, און די טרערן באַ איר זײַנען אַף די באַקן: זי האָט ניט ווער טרייסטן זאָל איר, פון די אַלע האָלטהאָבער: אַז די חברים האָבן איר אַלע פאַרראַטן, זײַנען איר פאַר שונאים געבליבן:
(ג) גָּלְתָה יְהוּדָה
אין גלות איז אַוועק יהודה, אין מוטשעניש און אין קנעכטשאַפט, אַ פולע: זי זיצט⸗זאַך צווישן די פעלקער, טרעפט ניט קין מנוחה פון די אַלע וואָס רודפן איר: אַז זיי האָבן איר דען איבערגעיאָגט אַווען ס′האָט שמאָל געהאַלטן:
(ד) דַּרְכֵי צִיּוֹן אֲבֵלוֹת
די וועגן קין ציון פּראַווען אבילות, אַז ס′פעלן אַדיאָ וואָס קומען אַף יום⸗טוב: וויסטע זײַנען באַ איר די שטאָט⸗טויערן: די כהנים זיפצן, די בתולות איז קאַלעמוטנע, און זי — איר איז, אײַ, ביטער:
(ה) הָיוּ צָרֶיהָ לְרׁאשׁ
אויבנאָן זײַנען אירע פײַנטהאָבער אַרוף: באַרואיקן זיי זאַך, די שונאים אירע, אַלמאי גאָט האָט איר אַקעגנגעטאָן פאַר די פולע זינד: אַזש די קליינע קינדערלעך אירע זײַנען אין געפאַנגעניש אַוועק, פון פאַרן פײַנטהאָבער:
(ו) וַיֵצֵא מִן בַּת צִיּוֹן
פון בת⸗ציון האָט זיך אָפּגעטאָן גאָר די פּראַכט: אירע פּרינצן זײַנען ווי הינדן געוואָרן, אַוואָס זיי טרעפן ניט אַוואו⸗זאַך פּאַשען: פאַרן רודף זײַנען זיי געגאַנגען, אָן כח:
(ז) זָכְרָה יְרוּשָׁלַיִם
האָט⸗זאַך פאַרגעדענקט ירושלים, אין די טעג פון אירע מוטשעניש מיט אירע צרות, אין די אַלע גליקלעכקײַטן וואָס באַ איר איז פון גאָר די אַמאָליקע יאָרן געווען: אַז דער פאָלק אירער איז באַם פײַנטהאָבער אין האַנט אַרײַנגעפאַלן, און אַף צו הילף קומען איז אַקיינער ניט געווען, האָבן זיך אָדי פײַנטהאָבער צוגעקוקט, איר אָפּגעלאַכט אַוואָס ס’איז אַלציקעדינג באַ איר אָפּגעשטעלט:
(ח) חֵטְא חָטְאָה יְרוּשָׁלַיִם
געזינדיקט האָט ירושלים געזינדיקט, איז זי אַזוי אַרומעט אַ נידה געוואָרן: אָדי אַלע, אַוואָס זיי האָבן איר אָפּגעגעבן כבוד האָבן אין איר שוין מזלזל געווען, אַז זיי האָבן איר נאַקעטערהייט דאַזען: אַז זי אַליין טוט זיפצן, און האָט⸗זאַך אַף קאַריק אומגעקערט:
(ט) טֻמְאָתָהּ בְּשׁוּלֶיהָ
שוין אין קליידל איז דאָ באַ איר די טומאהניש, זי האָט זיך ניט דאַטראַכט וואָס′ט זײַן פאַראַ סוף: גייט זי אַראָפּעט אַ פאַרהִתְפַּעֲלוּתטע וואָס ס′ניטאָ ווער זאָל טרייסטן —
„זע, גאָט, מײַן מוטשעניש: אָט ווי אַזוי דער שונא מאַכט⸗זאַך אַזש גרויס“:
(י) יָדוֹ פָּרַשׁ צָר
אוֹיסגעשפּרייט האָט דער פײַנטהאָבער זײַן האַנט אַף אַלע טײַערסטע אוצרות אירע: זי האָט געזען, ווי די פעלקער קומען אין בית המקדש אַרײַנעט, אַזעטקענע אַוואָס דו האָסט געהייסן זיי זאָלן אין קהל דײַנעם ניט קומען:
(יא) כָּל עַמָהּ נֶאֱנָחִים
גאָר דער פאָלק באַ איר טוט זיפצן, בעטלען ברויט: זייערע חפצים די טײַערע האָבן זיי דאָך פאַר מאכלים געגעבן, זיך אַ קוויק טאָן די נשמה:
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„זע, גאָט, און קוק זשע אײַנעט וואָס פאַראַ פאַרביליקטע בין איך פאַרבליבן:
(יב) לוֹא אֲלֵיכֶם
„א י ר אַלע, פאַרבײַגייער — ל א ע ל י כ ם! קוקט⸗זיך גוט אײַנעט דען און זעט, אויבע פאַראַן איז גאָר אַ ווייטיק אַמער פון מײַן ווייטיק, אַוואָס מיר איז אָפּגעטאָן, מיט וואָס גאָט האָט מיר אַקעגנגעטאָן אין טאָג פון זײַן גרימצאָרן:
(יג) מִמָרוֹם שָׁלַח אֵשׁ
„פון הייכענישן ט′ער מיר אַ פײַער אין די ביינער געשיקט, און ער′ט עם אַראָפּגעלאָזן, אַ כאַפּערשע נעץ צו די פיס ט′ער מיר אוֹיסגעשפּרייט: ער האָט מיר אַף קאַריק געטאָן שיקן, פאַר אַ וויסטע מיר געמאַכט, אַז ס′איז אין חלשות אַ גאַנצן טאָג:
(יד) נִשְׁקַד עַׁל פְּשָׁעַי
„צונויפגעפלאָכטן זײַנען מײַנע אַלע זינד אין איין יאָך, באַ עם אין די הענט, און אײַנגעשפּאַנט אין זיי אַלע איז מײַן האַלדז: ער האָט באַ מיר דעם כח אַזש קאַלע געמאַכט: גאָט האָט מיר געגעבן אין די הענט פון [אַזעטקענע וואָס טוען], איך זאָל זאַך אופשטעלן גאָר ניט קענען:
(טו) סִלָּה כָּל אַבִּירַי
„אַז פאַרהֶפְקֶרְט האָט גאָט באַ מיר גאָר די יונגע גיבורים, אַוואָס אַרום מיר: ער האָט נאָך אַף מיר יום⸗טוב אַרוֹיסגערופן, אַף די בחורים מײַנע אײַנברעכן: אַזש ווי אין אַ ווײַנקלאַפּ, האָט גאָט די בתולה בת⸗יהודה צוטראָטן:
(טז) עַל אֵלֶה אֲנִי בוֹכִיָּה
„אַף אָטאָ דיאָ טו איך וויינען: מײַן אויג, מײַן אויג, לאָזט וואַסערן אַראָפּ, אַז איטלעכער וואָס טוט טרייסטן האָט זיך פון מיר פונווײַטגעהאַלטן: אַז די וואָס האָבן מיר די נשמה דאַקוויקט, סאַמע קינדער מײַנע, זײַנען זיי אַליין אין פאַרוויסטעניש: ווײַלע דער שונא′ט גובר געווען:
(יז) פֵּרְשָׁה צִיּוֹן בְּיָדֶיהָ
„אַ שפּרייט אוֹיס טוט צִיוֹן מיט די הענט אירע: אַז ס′ניטאָ ווער ס′עט טרייסטן: האָט דאָך גאָט געהייסן אַף יעקבן, אַז די פײַנטהאָבער זײַנע זאָלן עם אַרומענאַרום זײַן: און צווישן זיי אַלעמען, איז גאָר פאַר אַ נידה געבליבן ירושלים:
(יח) צַדִּיק הוּא יי
„איז דאָך גאָט פאָרט דער רעכטפאַרטיקער: אַקעגן ז ײַ ן וואָרט האָב א י ך דאָך ווידערשפּעניקט: איז הערט זשע זאַך צו, אַלע פעלקער און טוט זען דעם ווייטיק, אַז די בתולות מיט די בחורים אינאיינעם ט′מען אין געפאַנגענשאַפט אַרוֹיסגעפירט:
(יט) קָרָאתִי לַמְאַהֲבַי
„כאָ′דאָך אַ רוף געטאָן מײַנע געליבטע, האָבן זיי מיר אָבער אָפּגענאַרט: אַזש די כהנים מײַנע, מיט די זקנים מײַנע, אַוואָס אין שטאָט, פאַר הונגער זײַנען זיי אוֹיסגעגאַנגען, באַם אוֹיסבעטן זאַך אַוואָס צובײַסן:
(כ) רְאֵה יי כִּי צַר לִי
„איז זע, גאָט, ווי אַזוי באַ מיר האַלט שמאָל, אַז ס′ברענט אַזש באַ מיר די אינגעווייד: אוֹי, האָב איך חרטה, אַז ווידערשפּעניקן האָב איך ווידערשפּעניקט: אינדרויסן האַקט אָפּעט די שווערד און אינעווייניק איז גלאַט ווי דער טויט:
(כא) שָׁמְעוּ כִּי נֶאֱנָחָה
„אַ ז י י האָבן דאַהערט אַזש ווי אַזוי כ′טו זיפצן, אַז ס′ניטאָ ווער זאָל טרייסטן: אַז די אַלע שונאים זײַנען געוואָר געוואָרן מײַנע צרות, האָבן זיי⸗זאַך דאַפרייט, אַלמאי אָדאָס האָ ס ט ע געמאַכט: דרום ווע ס ט ע בריינגין צו טראָגן אָדעם טאָג, אַוואָס ד ו ′ע ס ט עם אַרוֹיסרופן, און זיי אַלע, צו מיר וועלן זיי זײַן צוגעגליכן:
(כב) תָּבׁא כָל רָעָתָם
„טאָ זאָל די גאַנצע שאַלקהאַטפיקײַט ז י י ע ר ע קומען פון פאַר דיר: און ז י י טו אָפּעט אַוואָ′ דו′סט מ י ר אָפּגעטאָן אַף אַלע מײַנע זינד: באַ מיר איז אַ פולע זיצפן, און די האַרץ — אַ פאַרחלשטע“:
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Wiesenthal Center Protests Australia’s Failure to Extradite Suspected Nazi War Criminal
FROM THE SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER:
The Simon Wiesenthal Center harshly criticized this morning’s decision by the Australian High Court to block the extradition to Hungary for war crimes of suspected Nazi collaborator Charles (Karoly) Zentai.
“Today is a sad day for Australia, and for justice, but most of all for the Nazis’ victims, their families and those who empathize with their suffering. Our sympathies today are with the Balazs family, whose brother Peter was the victim of Zentai and his accomplices, and who tried to see justice achieved in this case, but were thwarted by the Australian authorities.”
— Efraim Zuroff
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НЕ ТОЛЬКО О ТУСКУЛЕНАЙСКОМ ПАРКЕ ПОКОЯ
МНЕНИЕ
Милан Херсонский
Можно ли представить себе правительство европейской страны, члена ЕС и
НАТО, которое в своей прекрасной столице инвестирует миллионы на
создание «Парка тишины» в память о похороненых там людях, если сотни
из них были пособниками нацистов и активно участвовали в уничтожении
еврейского населения своей страны?
Posted in Collaborators Glorified, Double Genocide: The New Form of Holocaust Revisionism & Denial, In Russian, Media Watch, Milan Chersonski (1937-2021), News & Views, Opinion, VilNews.com
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Ernst Nolte’s Grandson
O P I N I O N
by Clemens Heni
This edited and condensed extract is from the author’s forthcoming book (in press) and appears here with Dr. Heni’s permission. Clemens Heni is founding director of the Berlin International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (BICSA).
In June of 1986 the German historian Ernst Nolte (born 1923) started the so-called Historians’ Dispute (Historikerstreit) by publishing an article in the leading conservative daily of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.[i]
Nolte has to be seen as just one of the voices, though a leading one in point of fact, in the nationalist wing in the Federal Republic under Helmut Kohl, who had become chancellor in 1982, with “national identity” as a core element of his politics. The national wave had already begun in the 1970s with the infamous “Hitler wave” films, and with the emergence of the New Right and its German agitator Henning Eichberg and authors such as Martin Walser in 1979.
Posted in Clemens Heni, Double Genocide: The New Form of Holocaust Revisionism & Denial, Germany, History, News & Views, Opinion, Politics of Memory
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Lithuanian Foreign Minister Includes “Historical Memory Policy” (= Double Genocide) Among Nation’s Prime Goals for 2013 EU Presidency
In a curious annual statement to his nation’s diplomats around the globe, Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis recently proclaimed publicly that “historical memory policy” would be one of the main goals of Lithuanian’s foreign policy, particularly as it looks forward to its rotating presidency of the EU next year.
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The insistence on the Eastern European right wing’s history appears alongside energy and transport infrastructure, economic development, consular services for citizens resident abroad, military security, international alliances and more. The speech also mentions the need for more coordination of Lithuania’s “body and mind” implying the need for more rather than less diplomatic work in the field of history revisionism internationally.
Posted in 70 Years Declaration, Double Games, Double Genocide: The New Form of Holocaust Revisionism & Denial, EU, Foreign Ministries: Holocaust Politics Abuse?, History, Human Rights, News & Views, Politics of Memory, The OSCE
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