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
OPINION | COMMEMORATIONS | EVENTS | SHEDUVA & ITS NEW MUSEUM ◊ by Dovid Katz ◊ [UPDATE OF 10 MAY 2024: YOUTUBE FILM TRAILER REMOVED BY "MUSEUM OF THE LOST SHTETL"] The passage of the decades has taken a naturally gradual toll on our ability to even imperfectly fathom history's most su| Defending History
OPINION | VILNIUS'S GENOCIDE CENTER | VILNIUS'S GENOCIDE MUSEUM | TUSKULĖNAI PEACE PARK | GLORIFYING COLLABORATORS | DOUBLE GENOCIDE | EVENTS ◊ by Dovid Katz Published reports today provided details and images of the solemn, significant, and meaningful April 24th commemoration ceremony remembe| Defending History
DOCUMENTS | 2023-2024 “WORKING GROUP” ON VILNA CEMETERY | WHO ARE THE MEMBERS? | OLD VILNA JEWISH CEMETERY AT PIRAMÓNT | OPPOSITION TO CONVENTION CENTER | THE “CPJCE” | CEMETERIES & MASS GRAVES | HUMAN RIGHTS ◊ VILNIUS—Sources in the Lithuanian prime minister's office today released to Defen| Defending History
OPINION | 2023-2024 “WORKING GROUP” ON VILNA CEMETERY | WHO ARE THE MEMBERS? | OLD VILNA JEWISH CEMETERY AT PIRAMÓNT | OPPOSITION TO CONVENTION CENTER | THE “CPJCE” | CEMETERIES & MASS GRAVES | HUMAN RIGHTS ◊ VILNIUS—The major Jewish Orthodox publication Yated Ne'eman featured a full page ev| Defending History
◊ Vilnius Jewish Community invites people of all faiths and backgrounds to Rabbi Samuel Jacob Feffer’s Open & Free Passover Seyder, celebrating the Jewish festival of freedom this Monday, 22 April, 9 PM to late, at the Narutis Hotel, Pilies g. 24 (ground floor, hall at end of corridor) Every| Defending History
OPINION | 2023-2024 “WORKING GROUP” ON VILNA CEMETERY | WHO ARE THE MEMBERS? | OLD VILNA JEWISH CEMETERY AT PIRAMÓNT | OPPOSITION TO CONVENTION CENTER | THE “CPJCE” | CEMETERIES & MASS GRAVES | HUMAN RIGHTS ◊ "Letter of Moral Capitulation" from Three Rabbinic Organizations? They sanct| 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
PERSON OF THE YEAR | LITHUANIA | JULIUS NORWILLA | LITVAK AFFAIRS | HUMAN RIGHTS | HISTORY ◊ The journey of Julius Norwilla (Norvila) comprises the dynamic persona of: a child in Soviet-era Kaunas; a young intellectual dissident (of religious persuasion) in the waning days of the Soviet| Defending History
OPINION | DOCUMENTS | 2023 "WORKING GROUP" ON VILNA CEMETERY | OLD VILNA JEWISH CEMETERY AT PIRAMÓNT | OPPOSITION TO CONVENTION CENTER | CEMETERIES & MASS GRAVES | LITHUANIAN JEWISH COMMUNITY AFFAIRS | HUMAN RIGHTS | CHABAD IN VILNIUS ◊ VILNIUS—In a 1 Nov. 2023 statement circulating widely amo| Defending History
[LATEST UPDATE. PAGE PUBLISHED ON 1 JAN. 2023] ◊ VILNIUS—The Defending History community celebrates the 700th birthday of Vílna (today's beautiful Vilnius — capital of the democratic EU state Lithuania; in Yiddish — Vílne; Polish Wilno; Belarusian Vilna; German Wilna) in the spirit of love f| Defending History
OPINION | HUMAN RIGHTS | CHRISTIAN-JEWISH ISSUES | CEMETERIES & MASS GRAVES | OLD VILNA JEWISH CEMETERY AT PIRAMÓNT | OPPOSITION TO CONVENTION CENTER ◊ ◊ by Dovid Katz ◊ On the 4th of May this year, Defending History published the official document issued by the Office of the Prime Mini| 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
[LATEST UPDATE; ORIGINAL PUBLICATION: 27 APRIL 2023] OPINION|FILM|BOLD CITIZENS|SAULIUS BERŽINIS|SHEDUVA | MUSEUM OF THE LOST SHTETL ◊ Partial chronology of recent events in the life and times of modern Lithuania's first major Holocaust truth teller, documentary film maker Saulius Beržinis| 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
[REAFFIRMATION ON THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF THE WAR'S LAUNCH] — STATEMENT ORIGINALLY ISSUED ON 25 FEB. 2022] ◊ Renewing our call of 25 Feb. 2022: The Defending History community joins in calling for immediate restoration of peace and security for all the people of Ukraine, condemning unequivocal| Defending History
[updated] ◊ see also: BOOKS SECTION ◊ FOR AUTUMN 2023 A MAJOR NEW ACADEMIC COLLECTION: War and Remembrance. World War II and the Holocaust in the Memory Politics of Post-Socialist Europe Edited by Paul Srodecki and Daria Kozlova Twelve papers in three sections: "Conceptual Fr| Defending History
BOLD CITIZENS | SAULIUS BERŽINIS | SHEDUVA | FILM ◊ ◊ THE INTRICATE SAGA IN THE BACKGROUND| Defending History
OPINION | HISTORY | BELGIUM | EU ◊ by Roland Binet (De Panne, Belgium) ◊ A few weeks ago my wife and I visited a number of British Commonwealth military cemeteries from World War I in Belgium’s Ypres area, which is in western Flanders, the Dutch-speaking region in the north of Belgium. St| Defending History
[updated, originally: 8 May 2023] OPINION | J. NOREIKA | NOREIKA PLAQUE IN CENTRAL VILNIUS | COLLABORATOR GLORIFICATION | VILNIUS: 700 YEARS CELEBRATION ◊ by Mark Blumberg (Tel Aviv) Lithuanian media has recently reported on the "temporary removal for repairs" of one of the numerous| Defending History
[LATEST UPDATES] Silvia Foti: The Nazi's Granddaughter: How I Discovered My Grandfather was a War Criminal UPDATE OF JULY 2023: NOREIKA PLAQUE COMES DOWN FOR NATO CONFERENCE. FOR HOW LONG? UPDATE OF JULY 2022: Foti's The Nazi's Granddaughter is reissued with the new title Storm in the Lan| Defending History
OPINION | FILM | FREE SPEECH | BOLD CITIZENS | SAULIUS BERŽINIS | SHEDUVA | IT PAYS TO DEFEND HISTORY ◊ VILNIUS—The Defending History community here in Vilnius was proud today again to be a partner, with the non-profit Kopa Studio II and visiting cultural and academic groups, in helping organize i| 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
VILNIUS—Today marks Defending History's five thousandth day of publication. Please check out the top menu, esp. Sections and Authors; and, those interested in Lithuanian Jewish (Litvak) studies and Yiddish, please see left menu. And — please support defending history by supporting DefendingHistory.c| Defending History
OPINION | DOCUMENTS | 2023 “WORKING GROUP” ON VILNA CEMETERY | OLD VILNA JEWISH CEMETERY AT PIRAMÓNT | OPPOSITION TO CONVENTION CENTER | THE "CPJCE" LONDON GRAVE TRADERS | CEMETERIES & MASS GRAVES | LITHUANIAN JEWISH COMMUNITY AFFAIRS | HUMAN RIGHTS ◊ by Dovid Katz This week's release of the| Defending History
DOCUMENTS | VILNIUS | OLD VILNA JEWISH CEMETERY | CEMETERIES | LITVAK AFFAIRS | HUMAN RIGHTS ◊ VILNIUS—In view of diverse characterizations circulating regarding the content of the judgment on the Old Vilna Jewish Cemetery at Piramónt (in the Snípishok/Šnipiškės district), handed down by Litvak Je| 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
OPINION | VILNIUS | OLD VILNA JEWISH CEMETERY | CEMETERIES | LITVAK AFFAIRS ◊ by Julius Norwilla (Vilnius) ◊ Like my fellow campaigners, over the years, in opposition to the project to plonk a national convention center in the heart of the Old Vilna Jewish Cemetery (via refurbishment of a hate| Defending History
[LAST UPDATE: 15 OCT.] DOCUMENTS | OPINION | HUMAN RIGHTS | OLD VILNA JEWISH CEMETERY AT PIRAMÓNT | OPPOSITION TO CONVENTION CENTER | CEMETERIES & MASS GRAVES | LITHUANIAN JEWISH COMMUNITY AFFAIRS | CHABAD IN VILNIUS ◊ First, the documents. All these recent documents, circulated by now| Defending History
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