Lithuanian ‘Government Historians’ blame Efraim Zuroff and Dovid Katz for the...
Professor Saulius Sužiedėlis (Millersville University, Pennsylvania), a major historian who has recently been flown to conferences far and wide courtesy of the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry, and...
View ArticleYad Vashem, in Jolt to Holocaust Survivors, Joining Revisionist Holocaust...
UPDATE: On 27 June 2011 at 3:31 PM (Vilnius time), the Israeli Embassy in Riga (responsible for Lithuania as well as Latvia) emailed DefendingHistory.com to say that Yad Vashem’s participation in the...
View ArticleWhere does Yad Vashem stand on East European Double-Game Double-Genocide...
DefendingHistory.com reported June 7th on Yad Vashem’s announced participation in the Lithuanian parliament’s 29-30 ‘International Conference: The Beginning of the Soviet-German War in the Baltic...
View ArticleLithuanian Authorities Initiate Prosecution Against Another Holocaust Survivor
The Lithuanian ambassador in Washington recently told a Jewish genealogical conference that the investigations against Holocaust Survivors who joined the resistance were “closed”. One questioner wanted...
View ArticleYossi Melman of Haaretz Responds to Yivo Director’s Attack
Haaretz reporter Yossi Melman, author of the 7 Sept. article which brought the Lithuanian government campaign against Holocaust survivor Joseph Melamed to wide attention, and who today broke the story...
View ArticleYad Vashem Withdraws Invitation to Lithuanian Minister over Campaign against...
Yad Vashem rescinded the invitations to the Lithuanian culture minister and ambassador to the 19 September event held in memory of the victims of the Lithuanian Holocaust. The cancelation of...
View ArticleLithuania Assaults Holocaust Memory
O P I N I O N by Danny Ben-Moshe NOTE: This op-ed appeared in today’s Jerusalem Post (and in the Jerusalem Report). Recent developments suggest Holocaust remembrance has fallen by the wayside as a...
View Article‘That Awful Summer’— Conference at Efrata College in Jerusalem
E Y E W I T N E S S R E P O R T / O P I N I O N by Joshua Markovitz (Jerusalem) It was Thursday November 24th. Thanksgiving. One couldn’t really feel […]
View ArticleYad Vashem’s Exhibit on the Holocaust in Lithuania
O P I N I O N by David Goshen (Kiryat Ono) [Editor's note of 1 December 2012: The letter below refers to the revised Yad Vashem exhibit of recent years, rather than the long-time exhibit removed. Cf....
View ArticleJerusalem-Kabul Exchange of Ideas: Dr. Efraim Zuroff, head of Wiesenthal...
THE DEBATE (IN REVERSE CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER) Background on DefendingHistory.com: 2 January 2012 report 13 January 2012, from Efraim Zuroff (Jerusalem): EXCERPT FROM OP-ED IN HAARETZ. FULL TEXT HERE....
View ArticleUnconfirmed Report: Yad Vashem asked to Shore Up Discredited Red-Brown...
VILNIUS. Unconfirmed rumors were swirling in “Holocaust politics” circles this week about an alleged request by “very high officials” of the Lithuanian government to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem — through...
View ArticleHolocaust Survivors to Demonstrate outside Tel Aviv ‘Sellout Gala’ Slated for...
C O M M E N T [updated 17 Feb] The following “SAVE THE DATE GALA DINNER” announcement was recently posted on the Telfed Online website [update: page taken down; similar text is at the ILCCI site of the...
View ArticleJoe Melamed, Head of Association of Lithuanian Jews in Israel, calls on ‘Real...
Developments have started moving quickly in the ill-starred project to host the current foreign minister of Lithuania as “guest of honor” at a Tel Aviv “gala” at the Dan Panorama Hotel on March 5th....
View ArticleImages from a Survivor Demonstration at the Dan Panorama in Tel Aviv
Most counts put at eighteen the number of participants in a small, polite but determined picket line outside the Dan Panorama Hotel in Tel Aviv this evening. The protesters, Holocaust survivors from...
View ArticleLithuanian Holocaust Survivors Protest Tel Aviv “Gala”
Kovno Ghetto Survivor and Resistance Hero Joe Melamed, 87, Leads March 5th 2012 Picket Line Against “Sellout Gala” at the Tel Aviv Dan Panorama Lithuanian Foreign Minister and Brothers Zingeris are...
View ArticleHolocaust Survivors Picket TA ‘Gala’ Where South African Bigwigs Honor...
Kovno Ghetto Survivor and Resistance Hero Joe Melamed, 87, Leads March 5th 2012 Picket Line Against “Sellout Gala” at the Tel Aviv Dan Panorama MORE IMAGES Lithuanian Foreign Minister and Brothers...
View ArticleCrying Over Dead Jews
O P I N I O N by Geoff Vasil Lithuania’s Jewish community isn’t immune from the broader issues facing Jewish existence in Eastern Europe and there are the same problems of Jewish identity that crop...
View ArticleYad Vashem Shocks Holocaust Survivors by Rejoining Lithuanian Government’s...
Holocaust survivors from Lithuania, and their families and advocates, are reporting feelings of “shock and betrayal” at “unbelievable reports” that Yad Vashem might again be lending legitimacy to the...
View ArticleClemens Heni’s Facebook Reactions to the Red-Brown Commission’s Renewal
The following Facebook entry is reproduced here with permission of the author, Dr. Clemens Heni. Clemens Heni shared a link. 31 August 2012 1) Dina Porat wrote a piece on the Lithuanian Holocaust years...
View ArticleJune 2009 Correspondence with Yad Vashem
D O C U M E N T S After more than three years’ wait for a substantive reply to the points raised in a letter to Yad Vashem, and in light of the past week’s shocking revalations about political […]
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