[LAST UPDATE. ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 19 MARCH 2025]
A Vilnius professor, a former foreign minister, and group of Conservative (Homeland Union) parliamentarians announce ‘collegium’ to glorify 1941 LAF (Lithuanian Activist Front / ‘White-Armbander’ ) Hitlerists who murdered their neighbors — effectively ‘initiating on the ground’ the Lithuanian Holocaust
The professor. Official announcement on website of the Seimas. Article citing former foreign minister.
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OUR TAKE
Leonidas Donskis answers Prof. Girnius from the grave:
‘When will the truth finally set us free?’
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NOW IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION:
Testimonies of 121 survivors on the 1941 LAF / white-armbander rampage of mass murder of Lithuanian Jewry
MAY-JUNE 2025 UPDATES
Former foreign minister, cofounder of the “collegium” announces June launch date for the drive to glorify the LAF murderers of thousands of Lithuanian Jewish citizens. Plans include lavish English-language publications intended to persuade major Western embassies in Vilnius and assorted foreign entities. Back in 2012, he was the author of the infamous Hitler-Stalin “moustache remark” when he attacked six inspirational Lithuanian parliamentarians who signed the Seventy Years Declaration.
In 2010, the Lithuanian Jewish Community protested his antisemitic tirade. In 2012, the Social Democrats, inspirationally led by Vytenis Andriukaitis, fought valiantly for the truth of history. See reports from the period, and especially Dr. Andriukaitis’s reply to the then foreign minister, and a historic parliamentary intervention by Andriukaitis and Algirdas Sysas. For Defending History’s take on the issues per se, please see our reply to the recent article that launched the latest attempt to kosherize and glorify one of Adolf Hitler’s most “successful local mass-murder machines” of 1941. The victims were all civilian Jewish citizens of Lithuania. Thousands were murdered before the Germans even came or took control.
See also dozens of survivor testimonies of the white-armbanders / LAF’s “accomplishments” for Lithuanian history, and English excerpts from their pre-Nazi invasion leaflets.
We call on genuine friends of beautiful, modern, democratic Lithuania to speak up loud and clear against the impending travesty.