There was a time, during the interwar period, when Lithuania was independent (1918-1940), that it could be said that the cities of Jerusalem and Panevežys were closely linked. That was…
Holocaust distortion is so prevalent in Lithuania, which has initiated and led many of the initiatives in Eastern Europe to rewrite the narrative of World War II and the Holocaust.…
When a neo-Nazi Holocaust denier sets out to murder Jews in Germany on Yom Kippur, the belated trial of Stutthof Nazi Bruno Dey takes on new importance. It’s not often…
Jerusalem – The Simon Wiesenthal Center today protested statements made recently by Latvian Defense Minister Artis Pabriks in praise of the Latvian SS Legions which fought alongside the forces of…
Jerusalem – The Simon Wiesenthal Center today denounced the vandalization with swastikas of a Holocaust memorial monument in Bogdanovka, one of the worst mass murder sites in Ukraine, where over…
Jerusalem – The Simon Wiesenthal Center today strongly condemned the illegal replacement on the wall of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences of a plaque honoring Nazi collaborator Jonas Noreika, which…
Belgrade – The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Director for Eastern Europe, Dr. Efraim Zuroff, met here today with Serbian President Alexander Vučić to discuss the plans for the creation of a…
Bibi, when you visit countries that no longer have Jews, maybe don't praise the first line they give you about how much they've fought anti-Semitism since the war. Prime Minister…
Red-carpet treatment for Croatia's president, whose approach to past war crimes is at best ambivalent, is an affront to victims of former Nazi collaborators The recent visit to Israel by…