Colleagues in Lithuania of all backgrounds invited to meet Dr. Efraim Zuroff, and join silent, peaceful protest against state-enabled neo-Nazi glorification of local Holocaust collaborators: Sunday 16 Feb, 2 PM, Ramybes Park, Kaunas
ZABLUDOFF PETITION NEARS 3000 SIGNATURES
Meanwhile: Wiesenthal Center’s Efraim Zuroff questions Tablet co-sponsorship of near-contemporaneous Lithuanian government financed event at Yivo; Olga Zabludoff writes in the Algemeiner Journal; Vilna Holocaust survivor comments.
FORMER GREEN HOUSE DIRECTOR RACHEL KOSTANIAN RECALLS SHIFT IN US POLICY DURING AMB. ANNE DERSE’S TENURE; EFRAIM ZUROFF RECALLS DISINVITATION AT U.S. EMBASSY INSISTENCE IN 2011; A YIVO DIRECTOR PARTICIPATED IN 2012 VILNIUS “CAMOUFLAGE SYMPOSIUM” COVERING FOR REBURIAL OF 1941 NAZI PUPPET PM (SEE: MAY 2012 OPEN LETTER)
YIDDISH STUDIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY: HEIR TO THE VILNA YIVO OF WEINREICH, SHABAD AND REYZEN OR — PR OUTPOST OF THE CONSULATE THAT SUPPORTED (IN 2012!) REBURIAL WITH FULL HONORS OF THE 1941 NAZI PUPPET PRIME MINISTER WHO SIGNED THE PAPERS FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF THE JEWISH CITIZENS OF HIS CITY, KAUNAS (KOVNO)?
TWO MEMBERS OF STATE-FINANCED “RED-BROWN COMMISSION” FEATURED AT YIVO EVENT
אַ וואָרט פון ווילנע גופא: אויך מיר אַ ייוואָ
נאָר וואָס: ס′עט פאָרט איבערלעבן דער אמתער גייסט פון ווילנער ייוואָ און פון יידיש
KAUNAS: Three days after the gala NY YIVO event, the annual neo-Nazi independence day march proceeds with municipal blessings on Sunday February 16th in the heart of Kaunas (Kovno); No comment from president, PM or mayor (or from DC embassy or NY consulate…). Last year’s lead banner featured the same 1941 Nazi puppet PM whom the state reburied with full honors in 2012. In 1941 he signed papers for incarceration and annihilation of the city’s 30,000 Jewish citizens. Reports on last year’s event by Evaldas Balčiūnas, Geoff Vasil, Efraim Zuroff, Dovid Katz.
OLGA ZABLUDOFF’S WASHINGTON DC BASED PETITION, NEARING 3000, NOW COVERS KAUNAS AS WELL AS VILNIUS. TIME TO SIGN?
MONICA LOWENBERG’S LONDON BASED PETITION ON A RANGE OF READILY SOLUBLE LITHUANIAN-JEWISH ISSUES . TIME TO SIGN?
Sunday 16 Feb 2014
Those who wish to join Dr. Efraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Israel office, and the Defending History team from Vilnius, in silent remembrance of the victims of the Lithuanian Holocaust at the time and place of the neo-Nazi march, please meet up with Dr. Zuroff and colleagues at Ramybes Square in central Kaunas at 2 PM sharp on Sunday February 16th.
ALL WELCOME TO JOIN IN SILENT, DIGNIFIED RESPECT FOR THE VICTIMS OF THE LITHUANIAN HOLOCAUST
ANTIFA.LT’S ANNOUNCEMENT OF 3PM EVENT; ON FACEBOOK