Is Walking Down a Street Named for a Murderer Now Considered ‘Holocaust...
Opinion | Collaborators Glorified | Antanas Baltūsis-Žvejas | Politics of Memory | Lithuania | History ◊ by Evaldas Balčiūnas ◊ ◊ Antanas Baltūsis-Žvejas (1915–1948) is remembered by the...
View ArticleAnother ‘Fake Litvak Congress’: Litvaks of Lithuania are Excluded on Orders...
OPINION | LITVAK AFFAIRS | WHAT DO FAKE LITVAK GAMES LOOK LIKE? | VILNIUS JEWISH COMMUNITY’S STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE | (AB)USE OF JEWISH EVENTS FOR HOLOCAUST REVISIONISM | WHEN GOV. MINISTRIES...
View ArticleUh-Oh, Here We Go Again: Secret Memorandum on Future of Vilna Great Synagogue...
OPINION ◊ ◊ by Dovid Katz ◊ It has not been easy for our embattled team to keep Defending History going for over a dozen years now, based here in Vilnius. But as with other small but committed projects...
View Article‘Morbid Memorandum’ (of AJC+LJC+GWF+Vilnius Mayor) Says Jews in Lithuania...
OPINION | VILNA GREAT SYNAGOGUE | VILNIUS JEWISH LIFE ◊ VILNIUS—In the days following publication by Defending History of a report reacting to press releases about a (secret?) “memorandum” signed by...
View ArticleChronology: 2021 Dedicated to Glorifying Juozas Lukša (Daumantas), Alleged...
[LAST UPDATE] JUMP TO MOST RECENT: On 23 Nov. 2021, Vilnius inaugurated a square named for the alleged 1941 Holocaust perpetrator… YAKOV FAITELSON; LAURENCE WEINBAUM; FAINA KUKLIANSKY & ANDREW...
View Article27 Months Later: Lithuania’s Defense Ministry Still Flaunts Website Homage to...
[UPDATED / ORIGINAL REPORT 3 MARCH 2020] COLLABORATORS GLORIFIED | KAUNAS MARCHES | EU | OPINION ◊ Believe it or not, the Defense Ministry still flaunts its magazine cover glorifying...
View ArticleBooks in the Debate 2022 — With Latest on Silvia Foti’s “Nazi’s Granddaughter”
[updated] see also: BOOKS SECTION ◊ Evaldas Balčiūnas reviews Vilnius Genocide Center chief’s new book on the Lithuanian Holocaust; in German translation Silvia Foti: The Nazi’s Granddaughter: How I...
View ArticleUpdates on Kaunas’s ‘Capital of European Culture 2022’ Year Without (So Far)...
[latest update] OPINION | LITVAK AFFAIRS | COLLABORATORS GLORIFIED | THE 2022 LEVINAS AFFAIR OF 2022 ◊ Congratulations to the city of Kaunas, Lithuania, once known also as Kovno (in Yiddish...
View ArticleThe Nine Lives of Dónal Denham
BOOKS | IRELAND | NORWAY ◊ by Steinar Gil My good friend and colleague for two and a half years in Vilnius, Dónal Denham, has written a book with the title Nine Lives: The Reflections of a...
View ArticleAre Leaders of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania ‘Taking Advantage’...
Reports in Baltic Times and Delfi For over a decade Defending History has exposed the far-right”Double Genocide” history-revisionist, Holocaust-obfuscating agenda of the “Prague Platform of European...
View ArticleIn Honor of Fania Yocheles Brantsovsky (Brancovskaja) on her 100th Birthday...
[LAST UPDATE] 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...
View ArticleRussian Warship, Go F**k Yourself! (Tale of an Overdue Vilnius Cultural Version)
OPINION | LITVAK AFFAIRS | (AB)USE OF JEWISH STUDIES FOR HISTORICAL REVISIONISM | YIDDISH AFFAIRS | YIVO IN LITHUANIA | MEDIA WATCH | FOREIGN MINISTRIES AND JUDAIC STUDIES | COLLABORATORS...
View ArticleRachel Kostanian’s Inspiring Life Saga Now on German Wikipedia
RACHEL KOSTANIAN | LITHUANIA | LITVAK AFFAIRS ◊ Vilnius Cinderella Comes to the Ball (belatedly, and in Berlin) German Wikipedia’s new entry tells the tale of Lituhania’s Rachel (Rokhl, Rochel)...
View ArticleYet Again, Naive Foreigners in Awe of Annual PR Show by ‘Red-Brown...
OPINION | RED-BROWN COMMISSION | MR. RAČINSKAS ON THE HOLOCAUST | LITHUANIA | DOUBLE GENOCIDE ◊ VILNIUS—With nearly all local Holocaust Survivors now gone, or effectively out of public...
View ArticleWollongong, Australia is a Long Way from Kaunas, Lithuania: Discovering a...
LITHUANIA | HISTORY | KAUNAS | MUSEUMS ◊ by Michael Samaras ◊ ◊ Wollongong, an Australian city located about 80 kilometres south of Sydney, is a long way from Lithuania’s Kaunas, which probably...
View ArticleJerusalem Post’s ‘Report’ on ‘Kaunas Capital of European Culture’ Fails to...
OPINION | MEDIA WATCH | KAUNAS | GLORIFICATION OF COLLABORATORS ◊ Not for the first time, the Jerusalem Post has sent a “correspondent” to Lithuania to do a write-up in the professional style of a...
View ArticleDH’s 2023 Person of the Year: Evaldas Balčiūnas
PERSON OF THE YEAR | LITHUANIA | EVALDAS BALČIŪNAS | LITVAK AFFAIRS | HUMAN RIGHTS | HISTORY ◊ In the decade since Evaldas Balčiūnas began informing the English-speaking world, in a series of...
View ArticleNotes from my Life
MEMOIRS | GLORIFICATION OF COLLABORATORS | HUMAN RIGHTS | PERSON OF THE YEAR | LITHUANIA | LITVAK AFFAIRS by Evaldas Balčiūnas ◊ I was born in Šiauliai on May 27, 1962. My father worked in...
View ArticleRoza Bieliauskienė (1946 – 2023): Cofounder of Lithuania’s Jewish Museum,...
ROZA BIELIAUSKIENE | OBITUARIES | MUSEUMS ◊ The following is a revised text of Dovid Katz’s obituary that appeared on his Facebook page today. ◊ Roza Bieliauskienė (1946-2023) The world of Jewish...
View ArticleA 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;...
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