Ernst Lowenberg (1922—2014)
London: Ernst Lowenberg (1922—2014) Ernst Josef Lowenberg (28 December 1922 — 26 August 2014) ◊ In his final months, London Holocaust survivor Ernst Lowenberg, a native of Halle am Saale in Germany,...
View ArticleMilan Chersonski is 77
The Defending History Community Celebrates the 77th Birthday of Vilnius author (in Russian), editor (in English, Lithuanian, Russian, Yiddish), historian (European), theatre director (Yiddish) and...
View ArticleRumbula and Ponár
M U S I C by Roland Binet (Braine-l’Alleud, Belgium) ◊ This composition, Rumbula and Ponár, memorializes the victims of the two most infamous mass murder sites of Latvia and Lithuania, Rumbula outside...
View ArticleTsemakh Shabad’s 150th Birthday Celebrated in Style at the Lithuanian Parliament
O P I N I O N by Defending History Staff ◊ Asuccessful and intensive one-day conference, exhibition and city plaque unveiling were all held today in Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital, to mark the 150th...
View ArticleMassacres of the Jews in Liepāja (Šķēde) in Fall 1941
M U S I C by Roland Binet (Braine-l’Alleud, Belgium) ◊ The Nazis tried to hide their crimes against humankind during World War II. They had tried to hide the fact that in the former territories of the...
View ArticleUsable Memory of Holocaust Victims: N.Y. Yivo Announces Campaign for Five and...
O P I N I O N by Dovid Katz In a widely disseminated press release today, the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research announced the launch of a fundraising campaign for US $5,250,000 for the “Yivo Vilna...
View ArticleDefending History Names 7 Prophet Amos Awards for Human Rights Courage in...
O P I N I O N ◊ On the occasion of the Jewish new year, 5775 (Sept. 2014 — Sept. 2015), starting this Wednesday evening 24 September at sundown, Defending History has announced seven symbolic...
View ArticleAnnual Memorial for the Jews of Svintsyán (Švenčionys): Small but Well Done
by Defending History Staff Svintsyán [Švenčionys] — Some fifty people gathered in the forest at midday today at the mass grave at Poligón, outside Švenčioneliai (Yiddish: Svintsyánke), in northeastern...
View ArticleHenke’s Legend
M E M O I R S by Shloyme Gilinsky This extract from a Litvak memoir by Shloyme Gilinsky who was born in 1888 in Lingmyán (now Linkmenys, Lithuania), and died in 1961 in the US, has been translated from...
View ArticleA Second Political Case
O P I N I O N by Evaldas Balčiūnas ◊ My Monday morning began with confusion. Usually the first thing I do on a Monday morning is prepare a work-report on the week gone by, but the police called me...
View ArticleLatvian Musical that Glorifies Holocaust Mass Murderer Opens on October 11th
New Musical, “Sugar Herbert Sugar” Glorifies Herberts Cukurs ——— REACTIONS: From Jerusalem: EFRAIM ZUROFF IN I24 From Riga: ALEKSANDRS FEIGMANIS IN DEFENDING HISTORY Tickets now available online for...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Inna Rogatchi
O P I N I O N ◊ Dear Dr. Rogatchi, Warm congratulations on your excellent film, The Lessons of Survival. Conversations with Simon Wiesenthal. We encourage all our readers to see the film, and those who...
View ArticleDefending History Brings Results: Yivo to Honor Arad (at Fundraising Banquet)
For First Time, NY Yivo to Honor (on Dec. 17) a Holocaust Resistance Hero Defamed by Lithuania’s Prosecutors Event is for NY Yivo fundraising, but no Yiddish text included HOPES RISE FOR LITHUANIAN...
View ArticleMeilach Stalevich (1923 — 2014)
O B I T U A R I E S by Dovid Katz ◊ Vilnius has just lost one of its most powerful and authentic Litvak personalities, and one of the last Vilna-born prewar Jews still resident in the city. Meilach...
View ArticleWhich Issues Did the Exhibition Neglect to Cover?
M U S E U M S / O P I N I O N by Milan Chersonski ◊ These observations do not claim to be a review of the traveling exhibition “Lithuanian Jews behind the Iron Curtain,” which […]
View ArticleMember of Lithuania’s Jewish Community Speaks Out on Neo-Nazi Parades, and...
O P I N I O N by Jacob Piliansky ◊ Iam proud to be a Litvak, and I am proud to be a citizen of independent and democratic Lithuania. I very much enjoy walking in our city’s delightful Vingis Park, […]
View ArticlePeter Jukes Exposes “Documentary” that Glorifies Nazi Collaborators
LONDON—British author Peter Jukes, best known for his screenplays, literary criticism and political journalism, tweeted today on the release in the United States of a new “documentary film” that...
View ArticleThe Holocaust Memoir That Doesn’t Fade Out at the Moment of Liberation
B O O K S by Ira Gold ◊ Waltzing with the Enemy: A Mother and Daughter Confront the Aftermath of the Holocaust by Rasia Kilot and Helen Mitsios. Urim Publications: Jerusalem 2011, 288 pp. On...
View ArticleVilnius: All Welcome at Public Menorah
Vilnians of all backgrounds warmly invited this Tuesday, 16 December 6PM sharp (1800) for the public lighting in central Vilnius of the first candle of the Hanukah menorah Rabbi Sholom-Ber Krinsky will...
View ArticleAustrian Volunteer Reflects on Year in Lithuania, Calls for City-Center...
O P I N I O N by Sebastian Hager ◊ Iwas proud to serve as Austria’s remembrance volunteer (Gedenkdiener) in 2013-2014. Based in Vilnius in the Green House, the country’s only serious Holocaust...
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