OPINION | FILM | BOLD CITIZENS | SAULIUS BERŽINIS | SHEDUVA | MUSEUM OF THE LOST SHTETL ◊ Five Minutes & Six Seconds: The Satanic Verses of Sheduva, Lithuania? Our take: We sincerely regret that the directors, donors, and staff of the "Museum of the Lost Shtetl" in the town of Sheduva, Li| Defending History
J. NOREIKA | NOREIKA PLAQUE IN CENTRAL VILNIUS | COLLABORATOR GLORIFICATION | VILNIUS: 700 YEARS CELEBRATION ◊ Ides of March 2024: BUT STILL NO ANNOUNCED DECISION ON FUTURE OF CENTRAL VILNIUS SHRINE TO HITLER COLLABORATOR J. NOREIKA. A SHRINE WITH A RECENT STORIED HISTORY. ONE OF A NUMBER OF PUB| Defending History
COLLABORATORS GLORIFIED | NOREIKA SAGA | JUOZAS KRIKSTAPONIS MONUMENT | U.S.A. ◊ America's new ambassador in Vilnius, HE Kara McDonald, makes a dramatic entrance that will go down in history, citing glorified Holocaust perpetrators Krikštaponis and Noreika by name, in first major interview: "I| Defending History
Lithuanian parliament's 'proud antisemite' announces run for president. Defending History was first to analyze his statements for Holocaust-based context The 'pioneering' hatemonger is arguably the first elected official in Eastern Europe to synthesize local far-right Holocaust revisionism and in| Defending History
OPINION | RED-BROWN COMMISSION (SECTION) | DOUBLE GENOCIDE | LITVAK AFFAIRS | LITHUANIA | YAD VASHEM & LITHUANIA | ISRAEL ISSUES (SECTION) ◊ Prof. Dina Porat of Yad Vashem will chair the Vilnius event on the Vilna Ghetto this Wednesday 20 Sept. featuring (among others) Ronaldas Račinskas an| Defending History
FILM | SAULIUS BERŽINIS | SHEDUVA | BOLD CITIZENS ◊ VILNIUS—B'nai B'rith Australia & New Zealand today issued the following press release accompanying its lifetime achievement award earlier this month to Lithuanian filmmaker Saulius Beržinis (see also DH's report on the dramatic saga in the b| Defending History
BOLD CITIZENS | SAULIUS BERŽINIS | SHEDUVA | FILM ◊ ◊ THE INTRICATE SAGA IN THE BACKGROUND| Defending History
OPINION | VILNIUS | OLD VILNA JEWISH CEMETERY | CEMETERIES | LITVAK AFFAIRS ◊ by Julius Norwilla (Vilnius) ◊ VILNIUS—Last month, the major Baltic news service BNS reported that a dynamic new outdoor exhibition, called "Pavilion: Vilnius 200 Years Ago" would open at the National Museum| Defending History
OPINION | ARTS | BOOKS | HISTORY | POLITICS OF MEMORY ◊ by Roland Binet (De Panne, Belgium) ◊ I want to share with our readers a remarkable book with reproductions of paintings and drawings by and about David Olère who had been a member of a Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Birkenau. But after| Defending History