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1 Preserving Eastern Europe’s last Jewish anti-Nazi resistance fort in the forest:
The German Army’s 45th Brigade comes to Lithuania as part of NATO, and ends up right next door to the rapidly sinking remnants of East Europe’s last Jewish anti-Nazi Jewish partisan fort in the forest. Will Germany publicly show respect to this last authentic relic of Jewish resistance? Cherish, preserve, protect, restore it? Take advantage of the magnificent opportunity for education for thousands of soldiers destined for “next door to the the Jewish fort in the forest” that late Jewish partisan veteran Fania Yocheles Brantsovsky (1922-2024) showed to thousands of visitors? Or will their arrival accelerate the fort’s disappearance as they “clean old Jewish cemeteries” elsewhere in elaborate PR stunts (with rabbis flown in from Berlin and the works) to fix their “Jewish problem”? Fania’s last wish and legacy. Video of Fania showing us the fort in 2007. Updates to June 2026. Defending History’s section on the fort. Note: The problem is not Germany’s “wishes in principle” but the failure to politely stand up to far-right ultranationalist Lithuanian state “history agencies” that oppose the Jewish partisan fort’s survival on the face of Lithuania.
ACTION? Please contact elected officials asking them to bring this up with German embassies and consulates. Please write personally German embassies and consulates.