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Talk of the Town
- • Vilna Ghetto Disneyland theme park (“secret” version)
- ♦ Robert Wistrich slams Israeli Foreign Ministry on ‘Global Forum’ fiascos
- ♦ Lina Žigelytė reports from Vilnius on the women protesters harassed both by neo-Nazis and the police
- ♦ Films and video
- ♦ Conference next week on East European Holocaust memorials (in Riga)
- ♦ Last week’s red-brown “Platform” (in Warsaw)
- ♦ Zeppelinus unmasked?
- ♦ Litvak Congress (in Vilnius, Sept)
- ♦ Bernard Dichek on the battle for history (in Jerusalem Report)
- ♦ Leena Hietanen on Estonia’s midsummer Waffen SS fest
- ♦ Monica Lowenberg helps UK’s ruling party see through East European far-right (in the London Jewish News)
- ♦ Dovid Katz reviews “Intermarium” (in IJFA)
- ♦ “Baltic Times”: Sinking deeper into ultranationalist swamp?
- ♦ SYD gets own website
- ♦ Anna Shepherd on Landsbergis’s homophobic track record
- ♦ Riga’s occupation museum tries to equalize the “tragedies of 1941”
- ♦ Litvak culture and tourism
Quick Finder
Battle of Ideas
- • Leo Rennert on Marci Shore’s attempt to “tilt” the Holocaust for East European nationalists
- • Disagreeing with Snyder’s “Bloodlands”
- • Vytenis Andriukaitis on the freedom of history
- • Yitzhak Arad on Holocaust Obfuscation
- • Danny Ben-Moshe on Double Genocide
- • Bernard Dichek on the unfolding debate
- • Leonidas Donskis on honoring of collaborators
- • Dovid Katz on three definitions
- • Monica Lowenberg on UK policy
- • Efraim Zuroff on Israeli policy
What’s it all about?
- ♦ Mission Statement
- ♦ What is Double Genocide?
- ♦ Antisemitism & bias
- ♦ Remembering the Rescuers
- ♦ Applauding citizens who speak up
- ♦ Proposing constructive solutions
- ♦ Studying the Holocaust
- ♦ Studying the decimated culture
- ♦ All part of Human Rights…
The Litvak Heritage
- • Quick Guide
- • 7 Kingdoms of the Litvaks
- • Land of the Litvaks (map)
- • Territory of Litvak Yiddish
- • Lithuanian Jewish Culture (excerpts)
- • Litvak Studies
- • Lithuanian yeshivas (map)
- • Lithuanian Holocaust (map & list of locations)
- • Lithuanian Holocaust (readings)
- • Honoring the rescuers
- • Reading old gravestones
- • Sounds of Silence (intro)
- • Exotic tourism & controversial subjects
- • External sites
Global Echoes
New Documentary Films
Vilna Ghetto “Disneyland” Charade: On-site Protest Planned for Sept 23rd
- ♦ Revealed: secret plan for the “Disneyland Vilna Ghetto Theme Park” (minus today’s Lithuanian Jewish community…)
- ♦ US writers on Sutzkever sham
- ♦ No suspects in desecration of ghetto’s final selection spot
- ♦ Constructive solutions
The Baltic Holocaust
Calendar
SYD
March 16th in Riga
March 11th in Vilnius
- ♦ 2013 Eyewitness Report
- ♦ 2012 Eyewitness Report
- ♦ 2011 Eyewitness Report
- ♦ Monika Bončkutė in Lrytas.lt
- ♦ What does the US Embassy think?
- ♦ Editorial
- ♦ Petition calling on the Lithuanian government to cancel the march
- ♦ How a Jewish resident of Vilnius FEELS about Nazi march (video)
- ♦ London Jewish Chronicle
- ♦ Olga Zabludoff in VilNews
- ♦ Reply to Zingeris statement
March 5th in Tel Aviv
February 16th in Kaunas
- Red-Brown “Platform” Runs Another Double Genocide Conference — in Warsaw…
- Baltic Times: Hitting a New Low with “Paid Advertisement” Advocating Migration of Latvia’s Russian Speakers?
- The Neo-Nazis Hate the Feminists, Too
- Lithuanian Government’s 2013 Vilna Ghetto PR Jamboree
- Israel Chronicle
- Lithuanian Gay League (LGL) Releases Text of Letter on July’s Baltic Pride March
- Estonian Fascist Admirers Preparing Midsummer Waffen SS Fest
- The Homophobic Track Record of MEP Vytautas Landsbergis
- Zeppelinus Images Revealed as Media Claims he is a Government Official
- On the Preservation of Lithuania’s Old Jewish Cemeteries
- Swastikas From Latvia in Center of Šiauliai (Shavl), Lithuania, as Police Look On
- Wikipedia Entry on Seventy Years Declaration Rapidly Distorted
- Reports from Lithuanian Media Claim that Neo-Nazi “Zeppelinus” is Unmasked as — A Government Official!
- Facebook Discussion of 23-29 April 2013 on the May 2013 Global Forum in Jerusalem
- “Rewriting History” on the Road in the USA
- Bloomington-Borns Jewish Studies Arranges for 2nd Soviet-Israeli “Vanity Press Poet” to be “Professor of Yiddish in Vilnius”
- Lithuanian Authorities Continue to Play Games with this Summer’s Baltic Pride, Bringing Potential Ridicule to Launch of EU Presidency
- The Wehrmacht: One of Hitler’s Killing Machines
- UK’s Minister for Europe Refuses to Criticize Baltic Glorification of Nazism
- Seventy Years Declaration (SYD) Website is Launched
- “Mixed” Court Ruling Leaves Uncertainty on Venue for Baltic Pride 2013 Parade in Vilnius
- In Obeliai (Abél) and Rokiškis (Rákishok): More State-Sponsored Glorification of Nazi Collaborators
- Charles Adès Fishman Adds Voice, on Yom Hashoah, to Sutzkever Prize Fracas
- Peter Thabit Jones Issues Open Letter on Sutzkever Translation Prize
- Arthur Dobrin’s Open Letter to Ed Hirsch
- Images from the March 16th 2013 Annual Glorification of Latvian Waffen SS in Riga
- Upside-Down World? Neo-Nazi March Assisted by Police on Central Boulevard, While Authorities Try to Banish Baltic Pride Across the River….
- One-Sided Coverage in the “Lithuania Tribune”?
- Yad Vashem Awards Three Rescuers (Posthumously) in Žagarė (Zháger), Northern Lithuania
- News from Lithuania (11-16 March 2013)
- The Last Public Statement of Former Israeli Knesset Member Marina Solodkin
- Summary Coverage of Neo-Nazi March in Central Vilnius on March 11th 2013
- Believe It Or Not: Lithuanian Parliament Honors Organizers of Neo-Nazi March in Central Vilnius
- Lithuania’s Social Democratic Party Issues Statement Against Neo-Nazi March
- Cameron’s Latvian Liaison, One Woman’s Petition and One SS March
- The Operation Called “Winterzauber” is an Ongoing Tragedy
- Isn’t it Time for the Author of the Myth to Apologize?
- Strength Through Joy “Hitler Youth” Events Sponsored by the City of Vilnius on March 11, 2013
- Latvian Ambassador to the UK Comments on March 16th Waffen SS March in Riga
- 3,000 Participate in “Unauthorized” Neo-Nazi March in Central Vilnius on 2013 Independence Day
- When Cassedy Came to London Town
- Vilnius Street Name Proposed for Rescuer Out in Boondocks; But Please Remove Nazi Collaborators from City Center!
- Background Reading on the Shift in US Foreign Policy on Holocaust Denial from c. 2009
- Letter to the Editor
- Response to Professor Fridberg’s Article
- A Counter-Question to Lithuanian Journalist Artūras Račas
- Evaldas Balčiūnas Remembers February 16th 2013 March in Central Kaunas
- The Real Dope on the February 16 Neo-Nazi March in Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania
- Tolerance Education? State-Sponsored Commission Uses its Website to Call Holocaust Survivor a “Liar” & to Demand “Apology from Jewish Community”
- Request for an Apology for Disrespect toward Rescuers of Jews and Holocaust Victims