Over 1,000 March in Kaunas City Center with Banner Honoring the 1941 Nazi Puppet Prime Minister who Helped Send City’s 30,000 Jews to their Death
PRESS: ALFA.LT; ALKAS.LT; BALSAS.LT; DELFI.LT; JERUSALEM POST; KAUNODIENA.LT; SWC REPORT; TV: KAUNAS NEWS; OPINION: Olga Zabludoff; Efraim Zuroff
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Section on Pro-Fascist Marches
Lithuanian TV interviews with Efraim Zuroff and Dovid Katz:
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In 2012, government reburied him in Kaunas with full honors; US State Dept and Yivo helped stage diversionary event
KAUNAS’S MAJOR UNIVERSITY STILL HOUSES SHRINES TO THE 1941 NAZI COLLABORATOR
Swastikas, white armbands, and other fascist symbols are brandished at the February 16th march in central Kaunas…
Lithuanian Filmmaker Saulius Beržinis (left) and longtime editor of Jewish community’s newspaper Milan Chersonski (in personal capacity) are among the small group of protesters. In background: Austrian Holocaust museum volunteer Sebastian Hager joins in.
Wiesenthal Center’s Dr. Efraim Zuroff leads the small protest and is interviewed by local media
Two dozen young Lithuanian protesters, most affiliated with Antifa.lt, peacefully confront the marchers on their route
Kaunas police, who treated foreign protesters with utmost respect, again harassed the young Lithuanian protesters by demanding addresses and making phone calls about each…
Defending History correspondent Evaldas Balčiūnas (left) with Dr. Efraim Zuroff