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Holocaust Survivors expressed grave concerns about the Commission at its inception in 1998. As PDF.
Sir Martin Gilbert resigned in 2008:
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THE ‘GENRE’ OF ‘HOLOCAUST STUDIES’ PROFESSED BY THE COMMISSION’S DIRECTOR GENERAL / EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (His speech at the Lithuanian Parliament on 30 June 2011)
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Simon Wiesenthal Center statement (Jerusalem 1998)
Efraim Zuroff (Vilnius 2001)
Efraim Zuroff (Jerusalem 2005)
Efraim Zuroff (Jerusalem 2007)
Jewish Community of Lithuania and Uni0n of Former Ghetto and Concentration Camp Prisoners (Vilnius 2008). Letter contains the text:
‘The fact that the “International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania” established by the President (chaired by E. Zingeris), did not publicly defend its own member Yitzhak Arad, or the other Jewish anti-Nazi partisans, is also surprising.’
—Jewish Community of Lithuania and Uni0n of Former Ghetto and Concentration Camp Prisoners (Vilnius 2008)
Karen Sutton, professor of history at Touro College in New York, in her The Massacre of the Jews of Lithuania (see Recent Books → 2008; Background → 2008):
‘Despite a number of half-hearted measures and ill-conceived historical commissions, contemporary Lithuania has much soul-searching to do to come to terms with what happened [....]‘ (p 209); ‘Both the historical commission and the lethargy of the Lithuanian Department of Justice on the issue of alleged war criminals have elicited an enormous outpouring of opposition from the Lithuanian Jewish survivor community and — “symmetrically” — tacit approval of the general non-Jewish population’ (p 211).
Yad Vashem (Jerusalem 2008)
Geoff Vasil (Vasiliauskas) (Vilnius 2008)
Valdas Vasiliauskas (Vilnius 2008); English translation
Professor Dov Levin demanded removal of his name in 2008:
