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NEW
- ♦ Three Yiddish institutions in Vilnius…
- ♦ New section on the Old Vilna Jewish Cemetery and its fate
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- ♦ Michael Shafir on Holocaust deflection and obfuscation in Hungary (and beyond)
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- ♦ Litvak Links page relaunched
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- ♦ Nationalist critique in Vilnius on Rūta Vanagaitė’s Holocaust remembrance project
- — Lithuania Tribune (Eng. Delfi) report
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- ♦ Debate over plans for congress and entertainment hall on Vilna’s Old Jewish Cemetery site
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- ♦ Will Yiddish poetry serve Neocon politics at SLS?
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- ♦ Geoff Vasil reviews Lithuanian TV show with viewers’ votes on whether “the Jews should return”…
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- ♦ VIDEO: Would a nation’s president and its one Jewish MP honor Holocaust-era fascist police volunteers alongside Shoah victims?
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- ♦ Josh Cohen has advice for Ukraine in Foreign Policy magazine
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- ♦ Rachel Kostanian speaks out on integrity and future of Holocaust commemoration in Lithuania
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- ♦ Vilna Holocaust survivor writes to head of NY Yivo about Red-Brown Commission; director replies
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- ♦ Andrius Kulikauskas explores the role of Lithuania’s 1941 leaders in the Holocaust
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- ♦ Hungarian Holocaust museum leaves out “C word” (collaboration)
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- ♦ Poets rise to the occasion
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Recent
- ♦ USA page
- ♦ Aleksandras Bosas (1951—2014), valiant poet
- ♦ Strange tale of Yiddish, Vilnius, the WJC and ORT
- ♦ Hungary
- ♦ Latvia
- ♦ Ukraine
- ♦ Free Speech
- ♦ Film and video
- ♦ Books in the debate
- ♦ New section: Lithuanian citizens speak out with courage
- ♦ New section: Christian-Jewish Relations
- ♦ New section: Obituaries
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Debate Flourishes
- ♦ Free speech in Paris? Efraim Zuroff slams Latvian veto of UNESCO Holocaust exhibit in French capital
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- ♦ One-sided coverage in Canada of Ukraine’s far right?
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- ♦ Auschwitz debates rage on
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- ♦ Czech president decries Ukraine’s choice of World War II fascists as “national heroes”
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- ♦ Wiesenthal Center protests event featuring Genocide Center maestro at a Jewish memorial event
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The Years and The Sites
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Far & Wide
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Survivors & Memory
- ♦ Dobke Yonis of Zezmer dies in Vilnius at 102
- ♦ What brings Anatoly to Vilnius from faraway Brest
- ♦ Zoya’s death leaves husband Meishke the last Jew in Svintsyán
- ♦ The bottle that waited in the attic 70 years to remind us of its unknown owner
- ♦ Meilach Stalevich turns 90
- ♦ Vilnius Holocaust survivor Pinchos Fridberg will not remain silent at distortion of history
- ♦ Nor will Shavl survivor Rachel Kostanian, former director of the Green House Holocaust exhibit
- ♦ Nor will flight survivor Milan Chersonski, former editor of Jewish community’s “Jerusalem of Lithuania”
- ♦ Survivors in Israel say no to abuse of Sutzkever’s legacy
- ♦ More from Holocaust survivors
- ♦ Survivor, resistance hero, scholar: Yitzhak Arad unravels the obfuscation of history
- ♦ Petitions by 2nd gen survivor Monica Lowenberg
- ♦ Let’s celebrate the bold Lithuanian citizens who speak up with courage
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The Baltic Holocaust
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Battle of Ideas
- • Bernard Dichek on the unfolding debate
- • Vytenis Andriukaitis on the freedom of history
- • Yitzhak Arad on Holocaust Obfuscation
- • Disagreeing with Snyder’s “Bloodlands”
- • Danny Ben-Moshe on Double Genocide
- • Leonidas Donskis on honoring of collaborators
- • Dovid Katz on three definitions
- • Monica Lowenberg on UK policy
- • Efraim Zuroff on Israeli policy
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Come & Explore
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Dr. Yitzhak Arad ◊
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What does Israeli Holocaust survivor and scholar Dr. Yitzhak Arad think? Will there now be a public apology on the prosecutors’ page that still defames him [as PDF] and from the “Human Rights Association”? Apologies to Israeli citizens Rachel Margolis and Joseph Melamed? Arad and Melamed are heroes of Israel’s 1948 war of independence. The 2009 Leivick House (Tel Aviv) speech of the late Ambassador Chen Ivri Apter.
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