A Great City’s 700th Birthday: For the Sake of Vilnius, Will They Now Take...
The Defending History community celebrates the 700th birthday of Vílna (today’s beautiful Vilnius — capital of the democratic EU state Lithuania; in Yiddish — Vílne; Polish Wilno; Belarusian Vilna;...
View ArticleDefending 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 ArticleA ‘Shameful’ Public Letter by Five Vilnius Architects: Would They Be Saying...
DOCUMENTS | OPINION | OLD VILNA JEWISH CEMETERY AT PIRAMÓNT | OPPOSITION TO CONVENTION CENTER | THE “CPJCE” LONDON GRAVE TRADERS | CEMETERIES & MASS GRAVES | LITHUANIAN JEWISH COMMUNITY AFFAIRS |...
View ArticleDH’s 2024 Person of the Year: Julius Norwilla
PERSON OF THE YEAR | LITHUANIA | JULIUS NORWILLA | LITVAK AFFAIRS | HUMAN RIGHTS | HISTORY ◊ The journey of Julius Norwilla (Norvila) comprises the dynamic persona of: a child in Soviet-era...
View ArticleVilnius Winter Mystery: When the Curtain Comes Down — Noreika or No Noreika?
J. NOREIKA | COLLABORATOR GLORIFICATION | VILNIUS: 700 YEARS CELEBRATION ◊ Vilnius winter mystery: When the curtain comes down — Noreika or No Noreika? Have they gone over the top to bury the Noreika...
View ArticleSeimas’s ‘Official Antisemite’ Announces Run to be Lithuania’s President. . .
Lithuanian parliament’s ‘proud antisemite’ announces run for president. Defending History was first to analyze his statements for Holocaust-based context The ‘pioneering’ hatemonger is arguably the...
View ArticleNew American Ambassador in Vilnius, HE Kara McDonald, Makes History Rapidly
COLLABORATORS GLORIFIED | NOREIKA SAGA | JUOZAS KRIKSTAPONIS MONUMENT | U.S.A. ◊ America’s new ambassador in Vilnius, HE Kara McDonald, makes a dramatic entrance that will go down in history, citing...
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 ArticleBlaming the Victims? State Agencies & Other Elites Defame Holocaust Survivors
UPDATED FEB. 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 2025...
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...
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