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Vilnius City Council Finally Decides to Change Name of Škirpa Street

Posted on 24 July 2019 by Defending History

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Vilnius City Council Finally Decides to Change Name of Škirpa Street

Vote is 20 to 16

Defending History brought the issue to the international community in 2010

See Dr. Andrius Kulikauskas’s classic 2015 Defending History paper on Škirpa; Vilnius City Council efforts by Mark Harold

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Posted in Collaborators Glorified, History, It Pays to Defend History: Success Over the Years..., Lithuania, Litvak Affairs, News & Views, Politics of Memory, Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius | Tagged Antisemitism in Lithuania, Holocaust in Lithuania, Jewish issues in Lihtuania, K. Skirpa Street in Vilnius, Pinchos Fridberg, Ruta Kaplinskaya | Comments Off on Vilnius City Council Finally Decides to Change Name of Škirpa Street

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