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Video: Commission’s director about Fania Btantsovsky and other Jewish partisan heroes defamed by antisemitic prosecutors
Page on the Commission
Section on the Commission
Commission’s Own Website
2015 Appeal to conscience of members of the Commission
2015 Appeal by one of the last Vilnius Holocaust survivors
‘The fact that the “International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania” established by the President (chaired by E. Zingeris), did not publicly defend its own member Yitzhak Arad, or the other Jewish anti-Nazi partisans, is also surprising.’
—Jewish Community of Lithuania and Uni0n of Former Ghetto and Concentration Camp Prisoners (Vilnius 2008)
2011: Commission’s understanding of “Holocaust Studies” revealed at the Lithuanian parliament in the speech of its executive director / director general.
28 August 2012. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Yad Vashem shocks Holocaust survivors by rejoining Lithuanian government’s “red-brown commission”’.
31 August 2012. Lietuvos rytas: ‘Taking an interest in Nazi and Soviet crimes is a response to Russian propaganda’. English translation. DefendingHistory.com comments.
3 September 2012. DefendingHistory.com: ‘English text of Joseph Melamed’s letter to Yad Vashem’.
3 September 2012. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Joseph Melamed, head of Lithuanian Holocaust Survivors’ association, releases letter to director of Yad Vashem’.
3 September 2012. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Holocaust survivors, based in Tel aviv, issue statement on renewal of red-brown commission’.
21 November 2012. DefendingHistory.com: ‘When the politicians run the conferences on — history’ by Evaldas Balčiūnas.
21 November 2012. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Red-Brown circus in Lithuanian capital’.
26 December 2012. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Tell me I’m wrong’ by Geoff Vasil.
1 January 2013. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Instead of truth about the Holocaust — myths about saving Jews’ by Pinchos Fridberg.
15 January 2013. The Algemeiner: ‘Instead of truth about the Holocaust — Myths about saving Jews’ by Pinchos Fridberg.
17 January 2013. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Red-brown commission’s newest layer of obfuscation: Are names of members secret?
27 January 2013. US Researcher is Persuaded that the Problem in Lithuania is called “Zuroff and Katz” …
21 February 2013. Executive director of the red-brown commission calls prominent Vilnius Holocaust survivor a ‘liar’ on the commission’s website.
28 May 2013. Executive director of the commission uses paper at Riga conference to personally attack Defending History editor.
21 June 2013. One of the commission’s new members, the head of the research department art the Genocide Center, tries yet again, in a public interview, to whitewash th LAF murderers of June 1041. Geoff Vasil replies.
5 December 2013. Commission ‘does’ Toronto.
2 March 2014. Defending History’s English translation of the public correspondence between Vilnius Holocaust survivor Prof. Pinchos Fridberg and Yivo director Dr. Jonathan Brent concerning the commission. Original appeared on 1 March in Yiddish in New York’s Forward (Forverts).
8 March 2014. Olga Zabludoff comments on the misrepresentations by the commission’s representative on a panel discussion organized by Yivo in New York City in February 2014.
15 March 2014. Defending History’s appeal to the conscience of the members of the commission.
22 November 2016. ISGAP Flashpoint: ‘Antisemitism in the twenty-first century shtetl’ by Dovid Katz.
April 2022. Red-Brown Commission seems to abandon any distancing from the far-right state-sponsored Genocide Center, whose director has long been a regular participant in far-right antisemitic events that often glorify local Holocaust collaborators as supposed heroes. See Evaldas Balčiūnas’s review of a book by Genocide Center director A.Bubnys, published in Lithuanian only by the Commission, and its implications for the wider debate.