Defending History
1 October 2023
Vol. XV, No. 5138
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Latest
- Will Working Group Have Courage to Just Say No to New Wave of Building & Profit from the Old Vilna Jewish Cemetery? And — a Tale of Two Green Buildings
- A Great European City's 700th Birthday: Time to Take Down Vilnius Shrines to Holocaust Collaborators!
- Yad Vashem Director Dani Dayan, Speaking in Lithuanian Parliament, Boldly Raises the Glorification of Holocaust Collaborators Noreika, Škirpa and Krikštaponis
- Painfully, Yad Vashem Heads for Vilnius Event, Again ‘Legitimizing’ the ‘Red-Brown Commission’, an Engine of Holocaust Revisionism
- Saulius Beržinis’s ‘Censored Film’ on Lost Shtetl Sheduva: Lithuania’s ‘Satanic Verses’?
- B’nai B’rith Australia & New Zealand Issues Press Release on Saulius Beržinis Award
- Defending History's Unequivocal Condemnation of Putin's War of Mass Murder, and Robust Support for Ukraine
- Books in the Debate: New Titles for Autumn 2023
- B’nai B’rith Australia & New Zealand Honors Filmmaker Saulius Beržinis, Bold Fighter for Historic Truth
- Roland Binet: Wrong Choice for the New “Flemish Canon” in Flanders Region of Belgium
- Mark Blumberg: The Summer 2023 NATO Conference Merry-Go-Round for the Vilnius Plaque Honoring Holocaust Perpetrator J. Noreika
- Notes and Updates on Silvia Foti’s ‘The Nazi’s Granddaughter: How I Discovered My Grandfather was a War Criminal’
- Saulius Beržinis: Statement by Kopa Studio II on Temporary Link for Free Online Viewing of Major New Documentary on the Holocaust in Sheduva
- Would Your Heritage Tour Group Coming to Vilnius Like to See an Informal Draft of the ‘Banned’ Film on the Holocaust in Sheduva?
- Julius Norwilla: New Public Model of 19th Century Vilna Features Czar's Military Base, Omits Vilna Jewish Cemetery
- Time for France’s Embassy in Vilnius to Just Say ‘Non!’ to French Bookstore that Features Books Glorifying Lithuanian Holocaust Collaborators
- Defending History’s 5000th Issue
- Israel Chronicle (updates)
- Could the Israeli Foreign Ministry be More Sensitive to Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture in Eastern Europe? Latest from Vilnius
- Full English Translation of Lithuanian Parliament Member Žemaitaitis's Antisemitic Post that Revives Holocaust Era Tropes in Modern Lithuania
- Lithuania’s Prime Minister Announces Members of New Commission on Fate of Hated Soviet Ruin in Heart of Vilna’s Old Jewish Cemetery
- Andrius Kulikauskas: Please Email Lithuania’s Prime Minister to Do Away with the Soviet Building Desecrating Vilnius’s Oldest Jewish Cemetery
- Andrius Kulikauskas: Who Will Tend to the Fate of Hated Soviet Sports Palace in Vilnius?
- Family of Master Vilna Yiddishist Zalmen Reyzen Welcomed to Vilnius
- Michael Samaras: Prof. Konrad Kwiet's Powerful Lecture in Wollongong, Australia
- Julius Norwilla: Visiting the Mass Grave and the Old Cemetery Remnants of Onetime Shtetl Garliava (Gúdleve)
- For Vilnius's 700 Year Celebrations, Antisemitic 'Artists' Launch Vicious New Holocaust-'Justifying' Souvenir
- Dovid Katz: So Easy to 'Blame the Wife' for a Rival Author's Greater Success (on Grade and Bashevis Singer)
- Latvia is a Democracy: So Why Fear Critique of Annual Riga Worship of Hitler’s Waffen SS?
- Roland Binet: Musical Composition and Video to Help Fathom the Latvian Holocaust and the Shame of Contemporary Waffen SS Glorification in Riga
- Julius Norwilla: Eyewitness Report on Far Right March on Lithuania's Independence Day
- Photographic Memories of Roza Bieliauskienė (on her Shlóyshim)
- Dalija Epšteinaitė: Remembering Roza Bieliauskienė
- Review of Michael Kretzmer’s Documentary Film “J’Accuse”
- Film, Video, Radio, Music
- Vilma Fiokla Kiurė: Lithuania Learns Some Quick Good Lessons (the Hard Way)
- Roland Binet Reviews James Bulgin's New BBC Documentary on the Baltic Holocaust
- Roza Bieliauskienė (1946 – 2023): Cofounder of Lithuania’s Jewish Museum, Longtime Chief Curator, Educator, Specialist on Litvak Artists
- Respectfully Disagreeing with Professor Timothy Snyder
- Vilma Fiokla Kiurė: Roma Heroism in Ukraine Eases Some Prejudice