Enlace Judío México e Israel – El renombrado cazador de nazis Efraim Zuroff ha pedido a los judíos sudafricanos que lo ayuden a identificar a una mujer que podría ser responsable de actos de indescriptible crueldad durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial more...

Renowned Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff has called on South African Jewry to help him identify a woman who may be responsible for unspeakable acts of cruelty during World War ll more...

Europe’s leading rabbinical association added its voice on Tuesday to the growing condemnation of legislation tabled in the Lithuanian Parliament that whitewashes the role played by Lithuanian collaborators during the Nazi Holocaust more...

Plusieurs centaines de personnes ont assisté à la représentation de l'adaptation de "Notre peuple" écrit par un chasseur de nazi et une auteure local, salué comme une étape majeure more...

Jewish Agency Chair discussed the issue with the Chicago Jewish leadership to seek action more...

(JTA) — Lithuanian soldiers and officials attended the unveiling of a plaque honoring the late chaplain of what Nazi hunters say was a local unit of Holocaust-era murderers of Jews more...

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For most of her life, Chicago journalist Silvia Foti had idolized her grandfather, whom she never got to meet. She knew that Jonas Noreika (1910-1947), the handsome and charismatic attorney who rose to prominence as a member of the Lithuanian military nicknamed "General Storm," belonged to the young country's pantheon of heroes for leading two rebellions against the invading Soviet army more...

The recent four-day trip by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to Lithuania to boost Israel’s relations with the Baltic states has reopened the toxic subject of Lithuanian collaboration with the Nazis during the Holocaust more...

During his visit to Lithuania, Benjamin Netanyahu spoke about the “distance travelled” from WWII-era atrocities and massacres more...

Top Nazi Hunter at the Simon Wiesenthal Center Efraim Zuroff has lambasted Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu over his comments praising Lithuania and its efforts to commemorate the Holocaust while visiting the country over the last few days more...

Jonas Noreika, whose granddaughter confirms he murdered more than 14,000 Jews, is honored as a national hero more...

VILNIUS, Lithuania — During the Holocaust, many Lithuanian Jews were not killed in Nazi death camps, but by their neighbors, usually shot or even beaten to death more...

The title page of Rūta Vanagaitė’s best-known book contains two pictures of young men. “This one is a Jew,” she said, pointing at the picture on the left. “He was a bicycle-racing champion more...

Eine litauische Autorin erntet extremen Hass wegen einer unbedachten Äußerung zur Geschichte des Landes. Der Fall zeigt vor allem auch, wie sehr das wiedererstarkte Russland viele Balten verunsichert more...

Eine litauische Autorin erntet extremen Hass wegen einer unbedachten Äußerung zur Geschichte des Landes. Der Fall zeigt vor allem auch, wie sehr das wiedererstarkte Russland viele Balten verunsichert more...

In Litauen finden großangelegte Militärübungen statt, bei denen die Abschreckung eines „möglichen Angriffs“ trainiert wird. Dagegen hat die jüdische Öffentlichkeit nichts einzuwenden more...

Jerusalem — Holocaust memory, or rather the lack of it, stalks the Trump White House. That troubling political reality has kept officials at Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust memorial and museum, on their toes in the first 100 days of the Trump administration more...

« Mon intérêt particulier envers le déroulement de la Shoah en Lituanie est la conséquence de mon implication dans un projet éducatif pour les jeunes lituaniens, appelé : « Être Juif ». Beaucoup de ceux qui ont participé à ces événements se sont montrés de plus en plus intéressés par le patrimoine, la culture et la religion juive (en Lituanie) more...

It’s not every day that Lithuanian high school students block the entrance to their school to keep out their principal and demand the return to work of a beloved teacher who, in their opinion, was unfairly dismissed more...

Во время Второй мировой войны в Литве было уничтожено 90% евреев, граждан этой страны more...

Der Leiter des Jerusalemer Wiesenthal-Zentrums, Efraim Zuroff, lässt nicht locker, wenn es um das Aufspüren der letzten NS-Täter und -Kollaborateure geht. Dabei geht es auch um das Geschichtsbild more...

Every year since 2011, on September 23, thousands gather in Ponary, Lithuania, to commemorate the 70,000 Jews murdered here and thrown into mass graves in this forested area outside the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, or Vilna more...

The sensation generated by a recent book may signal a new readiness by Lithuanians to tackle difficult questions about the Nazi and Soviet eras more...

Lithuania’s president joined thousands of people marking the 75th anniversary of the massacre of approximately 2,000 Jews by Nazi occupiers and their Lithuanian collaborators in the town of Moletai more...

A prominent Nazi–hunter from Israel and the Jewish Community of Lithuania called on the city of Kaunas to stop the use for recreational purposes of what used to be a concentration camp for Jews during the Holocaust more...

I'The site of the mass murder of several thousand Jews in 1941 has now been turned into a recreation and entertainment center which violates the memory of the victims more...

Израильское отделение Центра Симона Визенталя направило мэру Каунаса Висвалдасу Матийошайтису письмо с протестом в связи с проведением коммерческих развлекательных мероприятий в седьмом форте Ковенской крепости, где летом 1941 года было убито 5 тыс. литовских евреев more...

Selon Efraim Zuroff, le site « a été transformé en un centre de loisirs et de divertissement qui viole la mémoire des victimes » more...

Head of Seventh Fort heritage center maintains no events held where Jews are buried, claims proceeds to go toward site upkeep more...

(JTA) — A prominent Nazi-hunter from Israel and the Jewish Community of Lithuania called on the city of Kaunas to stop the use for recreational purposes of what used to be a concentration camp for Jews during the Holocaust more...

NEW YORK - In the wake of revelations that Kovno’s infamous Seventh Fort, the site of the murder of tens of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust, is being used as a recreation center, several voices have raised a hue and cry over the area’s misuse more...

Holocaust historian Dr. Efraim Zuroff slams use of the Seventh Fort heritage site for such activities as "disgraceful." more...

Nestled in a hillside and topped with lush grass and flowers, it's easy to see why this venue is popular for weddings more...

Efraim Zuroff has accomplished much in his long career, but there’s one thing he’s particularly proud of: He’s the most hated Jew in Lithuania more...

Nach dem 2. Weltkrieg machte es sich Litauen in der Rolle als Opfer der Sowjetbesatzung bequem. Das Mitläufertum beim Holocaust liess sich so leicht tabuisieren. Ruta Vanagaite redet endlich Klartext more...

Litauen debattiert über ein Buch. Die Autorin, Ruta Vanagaite, packt mit ihrem "Die Unsrigen" ihre Landsleute an einem wunden Punkt. Es geht um die historische Verantwortung der litauischen Gesellschaft am Holocaust more...

The Genocide Center has given the government a list containing 2,055 names of supposed perpetrators but Vilnius neither published it nor made any attempt to investigate the people concerned more...

Members of the Lithuanian Jewish community have called for the government to disclose the contents of a document that lists citizens who are alleged to have been Nazi collaborators during WWII more...

VILNIUS—An array of local observers, speaking as usual off the record here, declared themselves “in shock” over the official response to the Jewish Community released by Prosecutor General Rimvydas Valentukevičius yesterday, dealing with widespread requests that the state’s Genocide Center — with which his Prosecutor General’s office has closely cooperated on Holocaust issues for many years — release the list of around two thousand names of alleged Holocaust murderers that it recently announced it had compiled, drawing international press attention more...

Les Lituaniens se penchent avec peine sur le rôle de leurs pères dans l'Holocauste de leurs voisins juifs, avec la parution d'un livre qui jette une lumière crue sur ce chapitre noir de l'histoire que beaucoup auraient préféré oublier en Lituanie more...

A series of books and films has triggered national soul-searching by making the point that while Lithuanians were the victims of Nazi and Soviet occupation of the country, at times they too were perpetrators of crimes and their victims were Jews more...

JTA — As the author of a best-seller that deals with female sexuality after 50, the Lithuanian novelist Ruta Vanagaite is used to embarrassing questions from journalists about her private life more...

Manfred Gerstenfeld interviews Ruta Vanagaite on her new book, My people; Journey with an enemy: "Older people have apparently found the book quite offensive; it is incredibly painful for them to face their past." more...

Президент Федерация еврейских общин России (ФЕОР) раввин Александр Борода выступил с заявлением, в котором осуждает марш националистов в Литве more...

Some 250 in Kaunas celebrate individuals believed to have helped in the murder of Jews during the Holocaust more...

The annual march, which was timed to coincide with the anniversary of the Baltic state’s independence from Russia in 1918, was smaller than that of previous years more...

KAUNAS—For the fifth year running, the Defending History team was the only Lithuania-based monitoring unit on site to observe and record the neo-Nazi march in the center of Kaunas, from start to finish, on February 16th, the anniversary of Lithuania’s 1918 declaration of independence more...

Approximately 250 Lithuanians attended a march commemorating nationalists who are accused of complicity in the murder of Jews during the Holocaust more...

Until now, the glorification of the Lithuanian heroes who had played a role in Holocaust crimes was only one of several themes featured at the marches more...

The Genocide Center has given the government a list containing 2,055 names of supposed perpetrators but Vilnius neither published it nor made any attempt to investigate the people concerned more...

The leader of Lithuania’s Jewish community supported a proposal to delay publishing the names of suspected Holocaust perpetrators out of concern for their families’ reputation and privacy more...

Following the publication in Lithuania of a groundbreaking book on local complicity during the Holocaust, a state museum on genocide said it would publish a list of 1,000 suspected perpetrators more...

Following the publication in Lithuania of a groundbreaking book on local complicity during the Holocaust, a state museum on genocide said it would publish a list of 1,000 suspected perpetrators more...

After Lithuania changed the definition of 'genocide' and Baltic countries have turned murderers of Jews into national heroes, Holocaust researchers are accusing the State of Israel of standing idly by as history is being re-written more...

As far as combatting anti-Semitism, local institutions can be characterized as totally worthless in terms of fulfilling their ostensible function in Lithuanian society. more...

La presidenta de Lituania, Dalia Grybauskaitė, despojó al ex partisano antisoviético, asesinado en 1960 y convertido en héroe nacional de Lituania, Pranas Končius-Adomas, de la Cruz de Vytis (Cruz del Caballero Blanco) en respuesta “al pedido del Centro de Investigación del Genocidio y la Resistencia”, según informó el diario europeo. more...

Pranas Končius-Adomas is stripped of the Order of the Cross of Vytis "in response to an appeal by the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania". more...

The Lithuanian government ties to minimize the highly significant role of local Nazi collaborators in Holocaust crimes. more...

JERUSALEM—The Simon Wiesenthal Center today released a statement reaffirming its previously reported opposition to plans to place a $25,000,000 convention and congress center on Vilnius’s old Jewish cemetery at Piramónt. more...

Jicchak Arad je osmaosmdesátiletý bývalý židovský odbojář s pozoruhodným osudem. more...

Lithuania wants to erase its ugly history of Nazi collaboration—by accusing Jewish partisans who fought the Germans of war crimes. more...

The Simon Wiesenthal Center said it was opposed to a Lithuanian plan to seek European funding for the construction of a convention center built on top of a former Jewish cemetery in Vilnius. more...

“Murderers could not kill our memory. We are back because our memory is stronger than their bullets." more...

A conference on Holocaust education was held at Vilnius city hall on 17 April. The conference was the final event in the "Being a Jew" project's series of events this year marking Holocaust Remembrance Day. more...

Two months ago, as Israelis were deciding for whom to vote during a bitter election campaign, nationalist and anti-Semitic demonstrators marched proudly through the streets in the heart of Baltic capitals. more...

Approximately 500 ultra nationalists, some bearing Nazi swastikas, marched through a Lithuanian city that during the Holocaust saw the region’s most effective massacre of Jews. more...

Запад проигнорировал марши националистов в Прибалтике, пишет израильский историк Эфраим Зурофф в своей статье для сайта канала i24news. more...

Hostility to minorities and attempts to rewrite Holocaust history in Baltics - but no one cares, except Russia. more...

More than 100 people recently crowded Temple Anshei Shalom in Delray Beach to view local filmmaker Beach Richard Bloom's latest documentary, "Defending Holocaust History." more...

(JTA) — Lithuania’s Parliament passed an amendment recognizing Holocaust-era rescuers of Jews as freedom fighters. more...

В то время, как внимание всего мира приковано к Крымcкому кризису, на улицы балтийских столиц, нынешних и довоенных, выходят ультранационалисты. Маршируя, они хотят продемонстрировать свой исключительный патриотизм и одновременно демонстрируют экстремизм, ксенофобию и опасное стремление к пересмотру признанной истории Второй мировой войны и Холокоста. more...

The end of Soviet/Communist oppression and persecution presented a wonderful opportunity for the type of meaningful Jewish life taken for granted elsewhere in the Jewish world. more...

I first started demonstrating for Jewish causes almost 50 years ago, in the mid-1960s, as a young and impressionable high school student recruited for the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry by its founder, Jacob Birnbaum. more...

VILNIUS—Defending History confirmed today that renowned documentary film maker and Holocaust researcher Saulius Beržinis, founding director of the Independent Holocaust Archive of Lithuania (IHAL), has been the latest recipient of a letter from police on account of his work documenting the alleged Nazi collaboration of various Lithuanian “1941 freedom fighters” who allegedly collaborated with the Nazi regime and in the murder of their civilian Jewish-citizen neighbors in the days, weeks and months following 22 June 1941. more...

LEN Murray was taking copious notes – but he suddenly stopped writing, his pen poised over the yellow legal pad on his lap. Surely he had misheard the man? When the Lithuanian interpreter repeated his words, a spectral hand clasped the lawyer’s heart. Behind the Iron Curtain, on the convoluted trail of a Nazi war criminal living in Scotland, Mr Murray had not been mistaken. The venerable old man had indeed described in appalling detail how he had murdered a Jewish child a lifetime ago. more...
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Iako je pažnja svetske javnosti usredsređena na razvoj krize na Krimu, baltički ultranacionalisti izašli su na ulice aktuelnih i predratnih prestonica da bi demonstrirali svoj ekstremni patriotizam, izrazili ksenofobiju i promovisali opasnu doradu prihvaćene priče o Drugom svetskom ratu i Holokaustu. more...

Недавно произошли три события, которые отражают амбивалентность современной еврейской жизни в странах Прибалтики и, в частности, в Литве – самой большой из трех новых прибалтийских демократий. more...

March 11 is the day Lithuanian independence was restored in 1990, with the Soviet Union on the brink of collapse. more...

This morning I woke up to a brilliantly sunny day here in Vilnius, Lithuania, and for the first time I can remember, I cursed the good weather. more...

This morning I woke up to a brilliantly sunny day here in Vilnius, Lithuania, and for the first time I can remember, I cursed the good weather. more...

Israeli Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff led a protest against a march by ultra-nationalist neo-Nazis in Lithuania on Sunday. more...

Israeli Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff led a protest against a march by ultra-nationalist neo-Nazis in Lithuania on Sunday. more...

What is missing is any mention of the extensive and extremely important complicity of Lithuanians in Shoa crimes. more...

Kaunas –The Simon Wiesenthal Center's Israel Director and chief Nazi hunter Dr. EfraimZuroff yesterday afternoon led a protest against an ultra-nationalist neo-Nazi march in honor of Lithuanian Independence Day, held here, in Lithuania's inter-war capital, whose large and important Jewish community was virtually totally annihilated during the Holocaust by the Nazis, with highly significant participation of Lithuanian volunteer collaborators. more...

Dr. Efraim Zuroff, Holocaust historian, Nazi-hunter, and director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Israel office, has posted the following comment on the website of Tablet magazine, as one of the comments to a new book review. The comment also appears separately on Facebook. more...

Natsikütt Efraim Zuroff räägib, et sattus möödunud aastal Kaunases vastamisi sadade leedu marurahvuslaste ja neonatsidega. more...

" I think what is happening in Lithuania is far more serious than the phenomenon of Holocaust denial which has never penetrated mainstream European society " more...

Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius, the leader of the ruling Social Democratic Party, has given a “very negative” opinion about the statement of his party fellow MP Bronius Bradauskas who said that state pensions to Lithuanians who rescued Jews during the World War II should be paid by Israel, not Lithuania. more...

Earlier this week, Kenneth Bonert, author of the novel The Lion Seeker (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), shared some notes from the first part of his conversation with Dovid Katz about Lithuanian and the Holocaust. Today, he continues the conversation. He has been blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning. more...

Kenneth Bonert's fiction has appeared in McSweeney's, Grain, and the Fiddlehead, and his journalism has appeared in the Globe and Mail and other publications. His novel, The Lion Seeker (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), is now available. He will be blogging here this week for Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning. more...

Litwini nie są skłonni przyznać się do skali swego udziału w Holokauście - powiedział dr Efraim Zuroff, dyrektor izraelskiego biura Centrum Wiesenthala. more...

In a statement issued in Jerusalem today, the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Israel director Dr. Efraim Zuroff noted two major flaws in a recent report issued by the state-sponsored Genocide Center in Vilnius, Lithuania. more...

 The following is an English translation by Geoff Vasil of an article that appeared on Delfi.lt on October 25, 2013. The images that appeared with the original Lithuanian text are not reproduced here. more...

Unter dem Motto "Spät. Aber nicht zu spät! Operation Last Chance" hat das Jerusalemer Simon-Wiesenthal-Zentrum in Berlin eine Plakatkampagne zur Suche nach Nazi-Verbrechern in Deutschland gestartet. more...

A recent visit to Vilnius’s “Jewish Museum — Tolerance Center” has revealed a shocking panel purporting to convey the “facts” of June 23rd 1941, the darkest date in Lithuanian Jewish history. more...

The following is the authorized English version of the paper read by Milan Chersonski in Riga on 27 May 2013 at the Second International Conference on Holocaust Museums and Memorial Places in Post-Communist Countries. more...

The modern Republic of Lithuania has been creating a cult of the partisans. more...

The Genocide in the Holocaust is equated with the evils of Communism in all three Baltic coutries, says the "Last Nazi Hunter" to Arutz Sheva. more...

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מנהל מרכז ויזנטל, ד"ר אפרים זורוף, מטיח ביקורת חריפה על משרד החוץ, שהחליט להזמין לכנס למאבק באנטישמיות שיתקיים בירושלים בסוף החודש ארבעה שרים ממדינות שבהן האנטישמיות והעוינות לישראל הן מהקשות ביותר באירופה. more...

A leading Israeli Nazi hunter scolded the Foreign Ministry this week for extending invitations for an anti-Semitism conference to representatives of four European countries, which, he says, “are part of the problem and not part of the solution” when it comes to anti-Jewish and anti-Israeli bigotry. more...

“L’antisémitisme contemporain, dans les pays baltes, emprunte ses thèmes essentiels à l’antisémitisme traditionnel, qui avait cours avant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale. On y trouve des accusations, à propos du contrôle supposé des Juifs sur l’économie mondiale, le système bancaire et les médias. more...

The Minister for Europe has refused to back critics of marches in Latvia and Lithuania that honour Nazi collaborators. Tory MP David Lidington said in a letter that condemnation of the marches, which honour the Waffen SS and the Lithuanian Activist Front, was "a matter for the respective governments". more...

The organizers of the unsanctioned march were honored at parliament. Police are studying materials on the illicit march on March 11 and the ruling coalition in parliament have condemned the event, but the Union of Lithuanian Nationalist Youth was nominated for the Civic and Patriotic Youth Initiatives awards. Nationalist organization leader Julius Panka was there, at the March 11 Hall in the Lithuanian parliament. more...

This March 11, the day in 1990 when the Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic declared Lithuania sovereign and separate from the Soviet Union, was celebrated in Vilnius in the usual manner: neo-Nazis, skinheads, their young and naive followers and a gaggle of elderly politicians—both serving MPs and has-beens—assembled and marched up the main boulevard chanting nationalist and anti-minority slogans, scaring children and generally making the streets unsafe for normal activities. more...

An unsanctioned neo-Nazi march took place today on Gedimino Boulevard, the main avenue of central Vilnius, as Lithuania celebrated its 1990 declaration of independence from the Soviet Union. It had an estimated three thousand participants, the largest number ever. more...

On Monday, March 11, as many as several thousand Lithuanian neo-Nazis and ultra-nationalists will conduct a patriotic march in the capital of Vilnius (Vilna) to mark Lithuanian independence day. more...

On a rainy London evening, Thursday the 7th of March, six protesters met at University College London (UCL), for Cassedy had come to town. Her public talk initially scheduled to take place in the Garwood lecture theatre was unexpectedly changed to the Medawar Lankester lecture theatre two days prior. People on the Hebrew department’s Institute of Jewish Studies email list were notified of the change in venue but the details were, curiously enough, not updated on UCL’s website. more...

Since the Holocaust, Purim and the Book of Esther cannot be taken only in the light-hearted spirit of the merriest of holidays. more...

Even passively monitoring a neo-Nazi march is hardly my idea of oneg Shabbat (rejoicing on Sabbath), but that is how I spent last Saturday afternoon in the Lithuanian city of Kaunas, known to many of us as Kovno, once one of the most important centers of Jewish life and learning in Eastern Europe. more...

The estimates of the crowd ranged from five hundred to a thousand depending (in part) on whether the march’s many supporters who stood outside its bordering police cordons were counted. more...

Leedu võimud ei tohiks lubada rahvuslastel iseseisvuspäeval 16. veebruaril läbi Kaunase rongkäiku korraldada, ütles Simon Wiesenthali keskuse direktor Efraim Zuroff reedel. more...

The blog Christine Beresniova and Rokas Beresniovas recently published the article “A lamentable absence of sexy scandals.” We will refrain from comment on their understanding of the concept “sexy scandals” and stick to the work of fellow human rights advocates, which entails standing up to powerful establishments on behalf of minorities, victims of prejudice, and in the case of Eastern Europe, the victims (and handful of survivors) of genocide. Those who stand up know all too well that to do so is not all that often convenient, easygoing or self-serving. more...

VILNIUS - Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius says that he will not tolerate incitement of ethnic hatred referring to rally which is to be organized on Feb. 16 pledged by unrest in Kaunas. more...

Neither me nor my wife Anita are specialist researchers of the Holocaust. more...