Distorting the Truth
Still struggling to face its country’s complicity in mass murder of its Jewish citizens, some Lithuanian leaders resort to – Blame the Jews! Just over two weeks ago, on January…
Still struggling to face its country’s complicity in mass murder of its Jewish citizens, some Lithuanian leaders resort to – Blame the Jews! Just over two weeks ago, on January…
Her horrific cruelty, described in rare survivor testimony, spotlights Lithuania's widespread Nazi collaboration. We may have found this killer. This is a story about a Nazi war crimes investigation that…
It was with great interest that I read the op-ed jointly penned by Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi and his Lithuanian counterpart, Gabrielius Landsbergis, in last Friday’s Jerusalem Post. As could be…
An important but imprecise book about how the narrative of the Holocaust is being rewritten There are currently two dangerous phenomena which threaten Holocaust remembrance and education in many countries…
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.…
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…
Jerusalem – The Simon Wiesenthal Center today welcomed the removal early Saturday morning by the Vilnius municipality of a plaque honoring Lithuanian Nazi collaborator Jonas Noreika, who played an important…
Jerusalem – The Simon Wiesenthal Center today welcomed yesterday's decision by the Vilnius (Vilna) city council to rename a small street in the center of the city, which had been…
Jerusalem – The Simon Wiesenthal Center is calling for the removal of a plaque honoring the chaplain of a World War II Lithuanian auxiliary police battalion which murdered more than…