Defending History Proudly Supports Lithuanian Documentary Film Maker Saulius...
OPINION | FILM | BOLD CITIZENS | SAULIUS BERŽINIS | SHEDUVA ◊ Defending History proudly supports modern Lithuania’s first major Holocaust truth teller, documentary film maker Saulius Beržinis...
View ArticleWelcoming Springtime in Vilnius with Ever More Repairs at Library of Sciences
J. NOREIKA | NOREIKA PLAQUE IN CENTRAL VILNIUS | COLLABORATOR GLORIFICATION | VILNIUS: 700 YEARS CELEBRATION ◊ Ides of March 2024: BUT STILL NO ANNOUNCED DECISION ON FUTURE OF CENTRAL VILNIUS SHRINE...
View ArticleTwo Historic Statements by Professor Sid Leiman, To Date Only Member of...
DOCUMENTS | 2023 “WORKING GROUP” ON VILNA CEMETERY | OLD VILNA JEWISH CEMETERY AT PIRAMÓNT | OPPOSITION TO CONVENTION CENTER | THE “CPJCE” LONDON GRAVE TRADERS | CEMETERIES & MASS GRAVES |...
View ArticleTwo Further Statements by Prof. Sid Leiman Clarify Need to Dismantle Soviet...
DOCUMENTS | 2023 “WORKING GROUP” ON VILNA CEMETERY | OLD VILNA JEWISH CEMETERY AT PIRAMÓNT | OPPOSITION TO CONVENTION CENTER | THE “CPJCE” LONDON GRAVE TRADERS | CEMETERIES & MASS GRAVES |...
View ArticleUpdates from Lithuania’s Liveliest Cemetery
OPINION | 2023-2024 “WORKING GROUP” ON VILNA CEMETERY | WHO ARE THE MEMBERS? | OLD VILNA JEWISH CEMETERY AT PIRAMÓNT | OPPOSITION TO CONVENTION CENTER | THE “CPJCE” | CEMETERIES & MASS GRAVES |...
View ArticleMajor Jewish Religious Publication, ‘Yated Ne’eman’, Calls for Campaign...
OPINION | 2023-2024 “WORKING GROUP” ON VILNA CEMETERY | WHO ARE THE MEMBERS? | OLD VILNA JEWISH CEMETERY AT PIRAMÓNT | OPPOSITION TO CONVENTION CENTER | THE “CPJCE” | CEMETERIES & MASS GRAVES |...
View Article“Museum of the Lost Shtetl” (or “Lost Truth”?) Forces Removal of Saulius...
OPINION | FILM | BOLD CITIZENS | SAULIUS BERŽINIS | SHEDUVA | MUSEUM OF THE LOST SHTETL ◊ Five Minutes & Six Seconds: The Satanic Verses of Sheduva, Lithuania? Our take: Shame on the directors,...
View ArticleBuilders’ Curtain Down, Scaffolding Still Up, at Vilnius Science Library’s...
OPINION | COLLABORATORS GLORIFIED | INS AND OUTS OF THE NOREIKA PLAQUE IN CENTRAL VILNIUS | NOREIKA SAGA | U.S.A. ◊ ◊ Will the government of Lithuania, a proud, successful and delightful member of the...
View ArticleRabbi S. J. Feffer, Scholar (and Descendant) of Gaon of Vilna, Condemns...
OPINION | 2023-2024 “WORKING GROUP” ON VILNA CEMETERY | WHO ARE THE MEMBERS? | OLD VILNA JEWISH CEMETERY AT PIRAMÓNT | OPPOSITION TO CONVENTION CENTER | THE CPJCE | THE USCPAHA | THE CER (CONFERENCE...
View ArticleWe Honor Fania Yocheles Brantsovsky (Brancovskaja) on her 102nd Birthday in...
by Dovid Katz ◊ Compilation of articles, documentaries, videos, and photos. Plus: from the saga of 2008… See Defending History’s Fania Yocheles Brantsovsky Section Note: This page is a work in...
View ArticleLithuanian Gov. Sponsored ‘Working Group’ (Commission) on Fate of Old Vilna...
DOCUMENTS | 2023-2024 “WORKING GROUP” ON VILNA CEMETERY | WHO ARE THE MEMBERS? | OLD VILNA JEWISH CEMETERY AT PIRAMÓNT | OPPOSITION TO CONVENTION CENTER | THE “CPJCE” | CEMETERIES & MASS GRAVES |...
View ArticleBuilding Sheets Down, Scaffolding Removed, Builders’ Barriers are “Last...
OPINION | COLLABORATORS GLORIFIED | INS AND OUTS OF THE NOREIKA PLAQUE IN CENTRAL VILNIUS | NOREIKA SAGA | U.S.A. ◊ Latest images (17 June 2024) from the cleaned facade that Lithuania’s friends hope...
View ArticleRabbi Elchonon Baron, Asserting that Bnei Brak Rabbi was Misrepresented,...
DOCUMENTS | OPINION | 2023-2024 “WORKING GROUP” ON VILNA CEMETERY | LIST OF MEMBERS | OLD VILNA JEWISH CEMETERY AT PIRAMÓNT | OPPOSITION TO CONVENTION CENTER | CONFERENCE OF EUROPEAN RABBIS (CER) | THE...
View ArticleNew Plaque Glorifying ‘Chief Spokesman for Ethnic Cleansing’ in Lithuanian...
OPINION | COLLABORATORS GLORIFIED | KAZYS ŠKIRPA | GENOCIDE CENTER IN VILNIUS | GENOCIDE MUSEUM | SHRINES TO HOLOCAUST COLLABORATORS IN VILNIUS ◊ VILNIUS—A crowd of ultranationalist glorifiers of...
View ArticleVilnius Authorities Boldly Knock Down New Shrine to K. Škirpa, 1941 Planner...
DEFENDING HISTORY SUCCESSES | K. ŠKIRPA | COLLABORATORS GLORIFIED | VILNIUS | SHRINES TO HOLOCAUST COLLABORATORS IN VILNIUS ◊ VILNIUS—Within 36 hours of Defending History’s report that brought news of...
View ArticleThe Intensified Threat to Jewish Cemeteries
OPINION | 2023-2024 “WORKING GROUP” ON VILNA CEMETERY | LIST OF MEMBERS | MOUNTING OPPOSITION | OLD VILNA JEWISH CEMETERY AT PIRAMÓNT | EARLIER OPPOSITION TO CONVENTION CENTER | CONFERENCE OF EUROPEAN...
View ArticleArkady Kurliandchik Critiques German Embassy’s Kukliansky Award
OPINION | LITHUANIA’S JEWISH COMMUNITY ISSUES | GERMANY ◊ by Arkady Kurliandchik (Vilnius) ◊ I am aware that it has long been a practice to award assorted leaders with assorted honors on assorted...
View ArticleExactly How Many Thousands of People Will Fit into Events at Planned ‘Museum...
OPINION | 2023-2024 “WORKING GROUP” ON VILNA CEMETERY | LIST OF MEMBERS | MOUNTING OPPOSITION | OLD VILNA JEWISH CEMETERY AT PIRAMÓNT | EARLIER OPPOSITION TO CONVENTION CENTER | INVOLVEMENT OF THE...
View ArticleOpinion: American Jewish Committee (AJC) Needs to Look Again at its...
OPINION | LITHUANIAN MISADVENTURES OF THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE (AJC) | 2023-2024 “WORKING GROUP” ON VILNA CEMETERY | LIST OF MEMBERS | MOUNTING OPPOSITION | OLD VILNA JEWISH CEMETERY AT PIRAMÓNT |...
View ArticleInternational Opposition to 2024 Proposals for a Memorial Complex (/Museum),...
[last update] See Note below ◊ Videos Online ◊ Written statements: Rabbi Elchonon Baron Ruta Bloshtein Rabbi S. J. Feffer Bernard Fryshman Dovid Katz Andrius Kulikauskas Sid Leiman Julius Norwilla...
View ArticleVilnius Jewish Community Leads Dignified Protest at the Old Vilna Jewish...
2023-2024 “WORKING GROUP” ON VILNA CEMETERY | LIST OF MEMBERS | MOUNTING OPPOSITION | OLD VILNA JEWISH CEMETERY AT PIRAMÓNT | EARLIER OPPOSITION TO CONVENTION CENTER | INVOLVEMENT OF THE AMERICAN...
View ArticleFirst Impressions of Vilnius’s New ‘Museum of Culture and Identity of...
OPINION | MUSEUMS | ARTS | LITVAK AFFAIRS ◊ ◊ by Dovid Katz The creators of Vilnius’s new Museum of Culture and Identity of Lithuanian Jews (MCILJ or for short — “Litvak Culture Museum”), which...
View ArticleWelcome to Participants in This Year’s Revived Vilnius Summer Program!
OPINION | YIDDISH | GREEN HOUSE | LAST JEWISH PARTISAN FORT ◊ Those of the founders of the Vilnius Summer Program in Yiddish, twenty-six years ago, in July 1998, who are still around and active will...
View ArticleEnglish Translation of Lithuania’s TV Evening News Coverage of Recent...
OLD VILNA JEWISH CEMETERY AT PIRAMÓNT | EARLIER OPPOSITION TO CONVENTION CENTER | 2023-2024 “WORKING GROUP” ON VILNA CEMETERY | LIST OF MEMBERS | MOUNTING OPPOSITION TO THE NEW MUSEUM/MEMORIAL...
View ArticleKaunesia: Travelling the Dark Memory Lanes of Kaunas
OPINION | KAUNAS | MUSEUMS | ANTISEMITISM ◊ by Adam J. Sacks ◊ It says something that the only “Devil Museum” in the world is to be found in Kaunas, Lithuania. This city sometimes also known as...
View ArticleArkady Kurliandchik’s Heroic Stand at the Old Vilna Jewish Cemetery
OPINION | VILNIUS JEWISH COMMUNITY ISSUES | OLD VILNA JEWISH CEMETERY | ARKADY KURLIANDCHIK ◊ VILNIUS—Last Thursday, 22 August, Defending History distributed the link to an ultranationalist...
View ArticleFania Yocheles Brantsovsky (Brancovskaja): 1922-2024
FANIA YOCHELES BRANTSOVSKY | OBITUARIES | LITVAK AFFAIRS | JEWISH PARTISAN HEROES DEFAMED BY VILNIUS PROSECUTORS ◊ Compilation of articles, documentaries, videos, and photos. Plus: Saga of 2008. Call...
View ArticleVilnius “Jews-for-Jesus” Conference to Feature Verbickienė and Toleikis
OPINION | LITVAK AFFAIRS | ANTISEMITISM | VILNIUS | CHRISTIAN-JEWISH RELATIONS ◊ VILNIUS—For centuries, missionaries have cunningly preyed on small, weak, fractured and vulnerable Jewish communities,...
View ArticleRabbi Elchonon Baron calls on Lithuania’s President & Presumptive PM Not to...
OPINION | ANTISEMITISM | LITHUANIA | RABBI BARON SECTION ◊ SEE UPDATES ON FRONT PAGE ◊ by Rabbi Elchonon Baron ◊ Honorable Gitanas Nausėda, President of the Republic of Lithuania Below is a letter I...
View ArticleAntisemitism, Holocaust Revisionism, and Anti-Israelism in Modern Lithuania
OPINION | ANTISEMITISM | HOLOCAUST REVISIONISM | LITHUANIAN JEWISH LIFE ◊ by Arkady Kurliandchik ◊ Reflecting on the current situation in Lithuania, where open antisemites do not hesitate to...
View ArticleWill Vilnius State Jewish Museum Reconsider Featuring Head of ‘Holocaust...
GENOCIDE CENTER & MUSEUM | A. BUBNYS | NOREIKA WORSHIP | ŠKIRPA WORSHIP | MUSEUMS ◊ OPINION ◊ The Defending History community, which has expressed profound admiration for recent major progress of...
View ArticleFar Right Antisemitic Establishment & Genocide Center in Vilnius: Launching...
FANIA YOCHELES BRANTSOVSKY | BLAMING THE VICTIMS | LITHUANIA | LITVAK AFFAIRS ◊ The following email blast with its links to online sites, forthcoming events in Vilnius, and at its end, a link to an old...
View ArticleBlaming the Victims: Documents and Sources
UPDATED 31 Jan. 2025 (originally published 21 Aug. 2010). See also (older, not updated) Responses page. 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017...
View ArticleFull Translation of Jan.-Feb. 2025 Email Blast Defaming Fania Yocheles...
FANIA YOCHELES BRANTSOVSKY | BLAMING THE VICTIMS | ANTISEMITISM | LITHUANIA | LITVAK AFFAIRS ◊ The following is a full translation of the recent email blast published in Defending History in the...
View ArticleSaulius Beržinis’s Documentary Film ‘Petrified Time’ on the Holocaust in Sheduva
FILM | ARTS | OPINION | SHEDUVA | SAULIUS BERŽINIS ◊ FILM REVIEW by Roland Binet (De Panne, Belgium) ◊ ◊ The history of Lithuania during the Second World War is complex and tragic. After short-lived...
View ArticleWelcoming Lithuanian Prime Minister’s New Working Group on Antisemitism
ANTISEMITISM | LITHUANIA | OPINION ◊ OPINION ◊ Today’s announcement that Lithuanian prime minister Gintautas Paluckas has set up a Working Group to study the rise in antisemitism is welcomed by all...
View ArticleLithuania’s State Jewish Museum Deletes Yiddish from all Three Vilnius Addresses
OPINION | YIDDISH AFFAIRS | LITVAK ISSUES | MUSEUMS ◊ by Dovid Katz ◊ From the days of its majestic late 1980s independence struggle onward, Lithuanian state policy has for forty years now had the...
View ArticleClaims Conference Should Think Again Before Inadvertently Legitimizing East...
OPINION | THE RED-BROWN COMMISSION | FANIA YOCHELES BRANTSOVSKY | YITZHAK ARAD | DOUBLE GENOCIDE | LITHUANIA | LITVAK AFFAIRS ◊ OPINION ◊ VILNIUS—Everybody makes mistakes, even august, storied and...
View ArticleAnother Kind of Final Solution?
OPINION | MUSEUMS | LITHUANIA | LITVAK AFFAIRS | YIDDISH AFFAIRS ◊ by Dalia Epstein (Dalija Epšteinaitė) ◊ When speaking about the Holocaust in Lithuania, it is customary to cite 95%, that is, more...
View ArticleProf. Girnius Tries Again to Glorify the LAF That in 1941 Butchered Thousands...
OPINION | LEGACY OF 23 JUNE 1941 | 2011 ATTEMPTS TO SANITIZE THE LAF | LAF’S INTENTIONS IN WRITING | ŠKIRPA’S PLANS | COLLABORATORS GLORIFIED | LITHUANIAN JEWISH AFFAIRS | CHRISTIAN-JEWISH RELATIONS...
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