Aleksandrs Feigmanis Documents Mysterious Eight-Pointed Star in Riga Synagogue
Following publication last year of an article on the mysterious eight-pointed star known from some old Jewish cemeteries in western Lithuania (the area known as Zámet in Yiddish, corresponding in part...
View ArticleSwedish Film Director Speaks Out on the Lithuanian Holocaust, Sort of, a...
O P I N I O N by Geoff Vasil Jonas Öhman is a Swede who has been coming to Lithuania and living here on and off from almost the beginning of modern independence in the 1990-1991 period. During […]
View ArticleNew Joseph Levinson Website Has Page on Old Jewish Cemeteries in Lithuania
The recently launched website JosephLevinson.com provides renewed opportunities for acquiring his two major books that are available in English. One, The Shoah in Lithuania, includes documents of the...
View ArticleFate of the Old Jewish Synagogue in Náyshtot-Távrik (Žemaičių Naumiestis);...
ניישטאָט⸗טאַווריק / Náyshtot-Távrik (Žemaičių Naumiestis): A Municipality in Western Lithuania May Soon Demolish 1816 Synagogue Building Samuel Gruber’s Report and Proposals Town’s Jewish citizens were...
View ArticleEfraim Zuroff on Tablet Magazine’s Co-Sponsorship of Lithuanian Government’s...
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...
View ArticleVilnius Holocaust Survivor Pinchos Fridberg Posts New Comment in The Tablet
The following comment by Professor Pinchos Fridberg was posted in Tablet on 11 February 2014, as a comment on a previous comment by Dr. Efraim Zuroff in the same discussion. See also Defending...
View ArticleUpdates to 14 February 2014: Neo-Nazi March in Kaunas, Gov. Sponsored...
Colleagues in Lithuania of all backgrounds invited to meet Dr. Efraim Zuroff, and join silent, peaceful protest against state-enabled neo-Nazi glorification of local Holocaust collaborators: Sunday 16...
View ArticleAnother Panel at Yivo, Neo-Nazi Marches in Lithuania, and American Silence on...
O P I N I O N by Olga Zalubdoff The following is the text of Olga Zabludoff’s op-ed published on 13 February 2014 in the Algemeiner Journal. Comments by readers are available at the original site of...
View ArticleWiesenthal Center Statement on Kaunas Protest Against Neo-Nazi Extravaganza...
JERUSALEM—The following statement was issued today by the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Israel office. WIESENTHAL CENTER ISRAEL DIRECTOR LEADS PROTEST AGAINST EXTREME RIGHT INDEPENDENCE DAY MARCH 16...
View ArticleLithuanian-Jewish Affairs: Three Events
(Reposted from today’s Jerusalem Post) O P I N I O N by Efraim Zuroff Three events took place this weekend which reflect the ambiguities of contemporary Jewish life in the Baltics and particularly in...
View ArticlePinchos Fridberg Interviews Pinchos Fridberg
The following is a reprint of Pinchos Fridberg’s article in today’s Russian-language Мы здесь. Интервью Пинхоса Фридберга Пинхосу Фридбергу Предисловие 13 февраля 2014 года сайт весьма уважаемой...
View ArticleExhibit Honoring Jewish World War II Veterans Disappears Into Vilnius Thin Air
O P I N I O N VILNIUS—Three Vilnius-based members of the Defending History team visited the Pylimo Street section of the Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum of Lithuania this week, and asked to be shown the...
View ArticleOut On Ellis Street in San Francisco
O P I N I O N Members of the US-based “Litvak SIG” (both those on the free lists, and those who paid their $36 a year dues for full membership), have been informed of the following event and the book […]
View ArticleOlga Zabludoff’s Comment on a February 2014 Yivo Symposium
The following 7 March 2014 comment by Olga Zabludoff on the video posted of the 14 February 2014 event at Yivo appears in the Comments section for her earlier article in the Algemeiner Journal, where...
View ArticleRun-up to the March 11th 2014 Neo-Nazi / Ultranationalist March in Central...
Vilnius, Tuesday March 11th 2014: Neo-Nazis Announce March Through Old Town and City Center to Nation’s Parliament Efraim Zuroff Will Lead Silent, Peaceful Remembrance as Protest Colleagues of all...
View ArticleFor Seventh Year Running, Neo-Nazis and Ultranationalists Given Center of...
O P I N I O N / E Y E W I T N E S S R E P O R T by Dovid Katz Lithuania’s March 11th independence day is celebrated by the free world, not […]
View ArticleSummary Coverage of March 16th 2014 Waffen SS Event in Riga
Over 1500 March in Central Riga’s Annual March 16th Waffen SS Fest MEDIA LINKS BACKGROUND AND RECENT NEWS ENCOURAGING DEVELOPMENTS (re previous years): Latvian Government advised people to stay away,...
View Article2014 Baltic Marching Season Concluded
Interface of Pro-Fascist Marches, Holocaust Revisionism, and Contemporary Racism EFRAIM ZUROFF IN THE HUFFINGTON POST, JERUSALEM POST AND TABLET Defending History, in harmony with the Simon...
View ArticleYivo Conference: Unresolved History
O P I N I O N by Geoff Vasil This comment on the event “Unresolved History: Jews and Lithuanians After the Holocaust,” held February 14, 2014 in New York City is based on the videotape of the event...
View ArticleBeloved Leader of Lithuanian Jewry, Simon Alperovich, Dies at 85
Dr. Shimon Alperovich (Simonas Alperavičius) 11 Oct. 1928 — 27 March 2014 ד″ר שמעון אַלפּעראָוויטש ז″ל Legendary Head of the Jewish Community of Lithuania (1992/3 — 2013) DAUNTLESS DEFENDER OF HISTORIC...
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