Holocaust Survivors, Based in Tel Aviv, Issue Statement on Renewal of the...
TEL AVIV—The following public statement was received at 2:15 PM Tel Aviv time from the offices of the Association of Lithuanian Jews in Israel at King David Boulevard 1. In addition, the ALJ today...
View ArticleJoseph Melamed, Head of Lithuanian Holocaust Survivors’ Association, Releases...
TEL AVIV—The office of the Association of Lithuanian Jews in Israel today released the text of the Hebrew letter which the ALJ’s chairman, Tel Aviv attorney Joseph Melamed, sent today to Avner Shalev,...
View ArticleEnglish Text of Joseph Melamed’s Letter to Yad Vashem
The following is a translation of the Hebrew letter from Tel Aviv attorney Joseph Melamed, head of the Association of Lithuanian Jews, to Avner Shalev, director of Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, in reaction...
View ArticleHolocaust Commemoration Vilnius Style — with an Israeli Twist
E Y E W I T N E S S R E P O R T / O P I N I O N by Geoff Vasil and Dovid Katz The ceremony today to commemorate Lithuanian Holocaust […]
View ArticleYad Vashem Sinking Deeper in Lithuanian “Commission” Morass with Political...
The polite fiction that the renewed Lithuanian state sponsored “Red-Brown Commission” will advance Holocaust research and research on Soviet crimes strictly at the academic and educational levels took...
View ArticleTel Aviv’s Leivick House Releases 2009 Video of Ambassador Chen Ivri Apter
Leivick House, one of Israel’s (and the world’s) last Yiddish-in-Yiddish cultural institutions, has released a video clip of the June 2009 visit to its Dov Hoz Street headquarters in central Tel Aviv...
View ArticleHappy 91st Birthday to Dr. Rachel Margolis
Tel Aviv’s Leivick House Releases Video of 2009 tribute by the late Ambassador Chen Ivri Apter ♦ Also: FORMER UK PRIME MINISTER GORDON BROWN ♦ 5 MEMBERS OF US CONGRESS ♦ LATE LITHUANIAN PM ALGIRDAS...
View ArticleEstonia’s Severe Case of Holocaust Amnesia
O P I N I O N by Efraim Zuroff From today’s Times of Israel. The visit to Israel of a foreign prime minister used to be a big deal. That’s why there were so many photos of Burmese head […]
View ArticleThe Last Public Statement of Former Israeli Knesset Member Marina Solodkin
Dr. Marina Solodkin, 60, a Moscow native and former member of the Israeli Knesset, died in her hotel room, of an apparent heart attack or stroke, in Riga, the capital of Latvia, on March 16th. She had...
View ArticleFacebook Discussion of 23-29 April 2013 on the May 2013 Global Forum in...
A paste-in of the Facebook discussion to date on the upcoming Global Forum conferences in Jerusalem is available at: http://defendinghistory.com/facebook-discussion-on-2013-global-forum-23-29-april-2013.
View ArticleGenocide Center in Vilnius Responds to the List of Alleged Holocaust...
Editor’s note: The following is an English translation by Geoff Vasil of an article that appeared on Delfi.lt on October 25, 2013. The images that appeared with the original Lithuanian text are not...
View ArticleEfraim Zuroff’s Speech at the 28 October 2013 Annual Memorial Program of the...
דבריו של ד″ר אפרים זורוף באזכרה השנתית לקורבנות השואה בליטא כ″ה חשון תשע″ד 28/10/2013 ערב טוב לכולם, עו″ד יוסף מלמד בקש ממני לעדכן אותכם לגבי האירועים שהתרחשו מאז האזכרה האחרונה לפני שנה בנסיונות של...
View ArticleDr. Efraim Zuroff’s Speech at the Annual Memorial for Lithuanian Holocaust...
O P I N I O N by Efraim Zuroff Authorized English translation of Dr. Zuroff’s speech at the annual commemoration event held by the Association of Lithuanian Jews in Israel, received from the Israel...
View ArticleIf Israel Can Honor the USSR’s Unquestionable Role in Bringing Down Hitler,...
O P I N I O N by Didier Bertin From the very beginning, the source of our problems is to be found in an inaccurate narrative of World War II that is rather widespread here in France. This can […]
View ArticleJerusalem Post, Again, Fails to Post Dissenting Comments on a “Lithuania...
M e d i a W a t c h / O p i n i o n Readers on several continents again report to Defending History that the Jerusalem Post has failed to post perfectly polite comments to yet another […]
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Steve Linde, Editor-in-Chief of the Jerusalem Post
O P I N I O N by Olga Zabludoff Editor’s note: This and other responses were first offered to the Jerusalem Post for publication. The Lithuanian government is pouring ever more resources and doing an...
View ArticleIsraeli Association of 2nd and 3rd Generation Survivors Calls for Action from...
JERUSALEM—On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, observed today internationally, Dorot Hahemshech, Israel’s largest association of children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, issued a call...
View ArticleIsrael Chronicle
[most recent update] Jump to: 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 earlier See also our Israel Section Also: section on the “political department” of Yad Vashem. Readers are invited...
View ArticleTel Aviv’s Leyvik House Issues Call to World Jewish Congress on Vilnius...
TEL AVIV— Daniel Galay, director of Leyvik House in central Tel Aviv, one of Israel’s major Yiddish culture institutions, issued the following statement today on the Leyvik House website (copy), and...
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