Jerusalem-The Simon Wiesenthal Center today publicly criticized Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė's statement in response to the recent desecrations of the Ponar Holocaust memorial earlier this month. Šimonytė correctly referred…
When vandalism at Lithuania's Ponar Holocaust memorial copies Russian tanks, it accuses the Jewish community of supporting Putin's invasion Two weeks ago, the Holocaust memorial at Ponar (in Lithuanian Paneriai)…
Jerusalem-The Simon Wiesenthal Center has expressed grave concern regarding two recent incidents, on March 31 and April 3, in which Lithuania's major Holocaust memorial at Ponar, the site of the…
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…