Belgian Composer Releases New Video on Eve of March 16th
ROLAND BINET | ARTS | MUSIC | LATVIA | RIGA’s WAFFEN SS MARCHES | REGIONAL FAR-RIGHT MARCHES | COLLABORATORS GLORIFIED ◊ Roland Binet, a Belgian composer working out of De Panne, has just...
View ArticleRoland Binet’s New Musical Composition to Mark 80th Anniversary of Onset of...
OPINION | LATVIA | BELGIUM | COLLABORATORS GLORIFIED | HISTORY | POLITICS OF MEMORY | LEGACY OF JUNE 23rd 1941 ◊ by Roland Binet (De Panne, Belgium) ◊ Just close your eyes and imagine. It...
View ArticleVideo Released of Marius Ivaškevičius’s Interview with Dovid Katz
◊ VILNIUS—Famed Lithuanian playwright Marius Ivaškevičius interviewed Dovid Katz as his Vilnius apartment on 20 March 2017 as part of the filming for Tzvi Kritzer’s documtentary “The Last Sunday in...
View ArticleArtists Knew, Allied Leaders Kept Silent
O P I N I O N by Roland Binet (Braine-l’Alleud, Belgium) When I was in New York last year, I saw an extraordinary exhibition of paintings by Marc Chagall, “War, Exile and Love” at the Jewish Museum....
View ArticleThe Jewish Tragedy in the Baltic States
M U S I C by Roland Binet (Braine-l’Alleud, Belgium) THE AUTHOR’S MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS: I War II Ghetto III The Killing Pits IV Liberation V Remembrance I War Saturday had been a warm […]
View ArticleSwedish Film Director Speaks Out on the Lithuanian Holocaust, Sort of, a...
O P I N I O N by Geoff Vasil Jonas Öhman is a Swede who has been coming to Lithuania and living here on and off from almost the beginning of modern independence in the 1990-1991 period. During […]
View ArticleExhibit Honoring Jewish World War II Veterans Disappears Into Vilnius Thin Air
O P I N I O N by Dovid Katz VILNIUS—Three Vilnius-based members of the Defending History team visited the Pylimo Street section of the Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum of Lithuania this week, and asked...
View ArticleA Jewish Tragedy (Flute and Composition)
M U S I C by Roland Binet (Braine-l’Alleud, Belgium) Starting in 2009, after my first visit in Riga, I became interested in the fate of the Jews in the Baltic States during the war. I returned...
View ArticleMonica Lowenberg’s Speech at Berlin Screening of Juergen Hobrecht’s New Riga...
by Monica Lowenberg On Sunday 29 June 2014, I had the privilege of participating in the Berlin screening of Juergen Holbrecht’s new documentary film Wir haben es doch erlebt — das Ghetto von Riga. I...
View ArticleLatvian Court Downgrades Holocaust While High Society Readies for New...
Latvian Constitutional Court Upholds “Double Genocide” Restriction on Free Speech Opinion that there was one genocide in the country (the Holocaust) remains criminalized by 2014 law, in the spirit of...
View ArticleIs “Sugar Herbert Sugar” the Latvian Version of “Springtime for Hitler”?
New Latvian Musical, “Sugar Herbert Sugar” Glorifies Holocaust Mass Murderer Herberts Cukurs Tickets now available online for performances around the country. About the show. Signature tune released on...
View ArticleYankl-Yosl Bunk – Jakovas Bunka (1923 – 2014)
Yankl-Yosl Bunk (Jakovas Bunka), Famed Wood Sculptor, Last Jew of Plungyán (Plungė, Lithuania), Dies at 91 His Art Commemorates the Holocaust in Western Lithuania Was World War II Red Army Veteran of...
View ArticleWhat Riga Ghetto Survivors Recall about Herberts Cukurs, Now “Hero” of New...
O P I N I O N / H I S T O R Y by Aleksandrs Feigmanis (Riga) ◊ Herberts Cukurs (1900-1965) had been an officer and a famous aviator during the years of the interwar Latvian Republic (1918-1940). […]
View ArticleRumbula and Ponár
M U S I C by Roland Binet (Braine-l’Alleud, Belgium) ◊ This composition, Rumbula and Ponár, memorializes the victims of the two most infamous mass murder sites of Latvia and Lithuania, Rumbula outside...
View ArticleMassacres of the Jews in Liepāja (Šķēde) in Fall 1941
M U S I C by Roland Binet (Braine-l’Alleud, Belgium) ◊ The Nazis tried to hide their crimes against humankind during World War II. They had tried to hide the fact that in the former territories of the...
View ArticleThe Holocaust: A Photographic and Musical Tribute
O P I N I O N / M U S I C by Roland Binet (Braine-l’Alleud, Belgium) MUSICAL AND PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPOSITION HERE I know persons within my circle of acquaintances who refuse to look at the...
View ArticleWiesenthal Center Condemns “Miss Hitler” Contest on Russia’s Largest Social...
JERUSALEM—The Simon Wiesenthal Center today expressed outrage at the announcement of an online beauty pageant for “Miss Hitler 2014” as publicized by a neo-Nazi group on VKontakte, Russia’s largest...
View ArticleLatvian Musical that Sanitizes Holocaust Perpetrator Starts its Grand Tour
New Musical, “Sugar Herbert Sugar” Glorifies Herberts Cukurs ——— REACTIONS & REPORTS: From Jerusalem: EFRAIM ZUROFF IN I24; IN THE JERUSALEM POST; IN THE LONDON JEWISH CHRONICLE From Riga:...
View ArticlePeter Jukes Tweets on Documentary that Glorifies Alleged Nazi Collaborator
O P I N I O N LONDON—British author Peter Jukes, best known for his screenplays, literary criticism and political journalism, tweeted last week on the release in the United States of a new documentary...
View ArticlePoetry Section Launched
VILNIUS—Defending History today announced its launch of a modest poetry section which will aim to harness the inspire the work of East European poets whose work includes verse in defense of history and...
View ArticleПоследняя книга поэта А.Босаса
МНЕНИЕ Милан Херсонский ◊ Вянваре прошлого, 2014-го года из печати вышла новая книга стихов литовского поэта, публициста, члена Международной ассоциации «Литва без нацизма» Александраса Босаса под...
View ArticleGraffiti Debate on Hitler in a Vilnius Housing Complex
P H O T O G R A P H Y by Julius Norwilla ◊ In a housing estate on Tuskulėnų Street, Vilnius © Julius Norwilla
View ArticleDanny Ben-Moshe’s “Rewriting History” Back in Melbourne
Melbourne: Tíshebov Showing of the Documentary Film Rewriting History Topics Include: Double Genocide, Holocaust Revisionism, the Lithuanian Holocaust, the Prague Declaration, the Seventy Years...
View ArticleA Major New Shtetl Museum for Shádev (Shádov, Shádeve, Today’s — Šeduva)
OPINION | LITVAK AFFAIRS | MUSEUMS ◊ by Dovid Katz (Vilnius) ◊ VILNIUS—The Litvak world, internationally fragmented and weak, yet so vibrant and creative, has been cheered by news reports of the...
View ArticleLinas Vildžiūnas’s Review of Rūta Vanagaitė’s ‘Mūsiškiai’ Now Available in...
BOOKS | POLITICS OF MEMORY ◊ by Linas Vildžiūnas ◊ The following English translation, by Laurynas Vaičiūnas, of Linas Vildžiūnas’s review of Rūta Vanagaitė’s Mūsiškiai appeared today in New Eastern...
View ArticleVirtual Yiddish Mini-Museum of Jewish Life in Interwar Lithuania
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View ArticleBrussels (& Some Fine London Architects) Duped into “Double Genocide” Program...
OPINION | PRAGUE PLATFORM | DOUBLE GENOCIDE | POLITICS OF MEMORY | BRUSSELS/EU ◊ Today’s edition of The Architects’ Journal (AJ) gracefully announces that Tszwai So, director of Spheron...
View ArticleIs Yiddish ‘Lingua non grata’ at National Library’s Exhibition on Prewar...
OPINION | MUSEUMS & EXHIBITIONS | THE ARTS | LITVAK AFFAIRS | YIDDISH AFFAIRS ◊ by Dovid Katz ◊ ◊ For many centuries, the Jews of Vilna (Yiddish Vílne, formal Ashkenazic Hebrew Vílno,...
View ArticleRichard Bloom’s Documentary, ‘Defending Holocaust History’, Now Online
FILMS AND VIDEO | ARTS | HISTORY | DOUBLE GENOCIDE ◊ PALM BEACH GARDENS, FLORIDA—Richard Bloom, director of Richard Bloom Productions, has just announced the release of the updated version of...
View ArticleVulovak’s Latest Caricature in His Series on ‘The Convention Center in the...
OLD VILNA JEWISH CEMETERY | CEMETERIES | HUMAN RIGHTS | ARTS | HUMOR (OF SORTS) ◊ אויך מיר אַ קאָנווענשאָן צענטער! Oykh mir a konvenshon tsenter! Don’t Lithuania’s citizens deserve a sparkling...
View ArticleBBC’s New Documentary Helps Viewers Come to Grips with the Start of the...
OPINION | ARTS | FILM | MEDIA WATCH | GLORIFICATION OF COLLABORATORS ◊ by Roland Binet (De Panne, Belgium) ◊ We are accustomed to the frequent excellence of BBC broadcasts, documentaries, and...
View ArticleFilm, Video, Radio, Music
[LATEST UPDATE. PAGE PUBLISHED 18 DEC. 2013] ADVERTISEMENT FREE ONLINE DIRECTED BY MARC RADOMSKY. PRODUCED BY DANNY BEN-MOSHE See also DH sections on: ARTS, BOOKS, FILM, MUSIC ◊ Films and Videos on...
View ArticleReview of Michael Kretzmer’s Documentary Film “J’Accuse”
OPINION | FILM | ARTS | MEDIA | COLLABORATOR GLORIFICATION | J. NOREIKA ◊ by Dovid Katz ◊ Genuine heroes of this saga—both written out of the film At left: Evaldas Balčiūnas (who first called his...
View ArticleWe Knew Roza
OBITUARIES | LITVAK NEWS | ROZA BIELIAUSKIENĖ ◊ by Dalia Epstein (Dalija Epšteinaitė) ◊ in memory of Roza Bieliauskienė (1946-2023) ◊ She died faster than a match burns out. Dumbfounded, we are...
View ArticleProtected: Roland Binet’s Musical & Video Creations: A Provisional Inventory
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View ArticleBlaming Inna Hecker Grade for Bashevis Singer’s Greater Success in English
Joseph Berger's recent article in the New York Times wrongfully blames Chaim Grade's having enjoyed lesser fame in English translation than Isaac Bashevis Singer on Grade's wife Inna Hecker Grade and...
View ArticleKopa Studio II Issues Statement on Temporary Link for Free Online Viewing of...
FILM | SAULIUS BERŽINIS | LITHUANIA | LITVAK AFFAIRS | FREE SPEECH | MUSEUMS | SHEDUVA ◊ VILNIUS—Kopa Studio II in Vilnius, the continuation of the fabled Kopa Studio that for thirty years has provided...
View ArticleB’nai B’rith Australia & New Zealand Honors Filmmaker Saulius Beržinis, Bold...
BOLD CITIZENS | SAULIUS BERŽINIS | SHEDUVA | FILM ◊ ◊ THE INTRICATE SAGA IN THE BACKGROUND
View ArticleB’nai B’rith Australia & New Zealand Issues Press Release on Saulius Beržinis...
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...
View ArticleA Different Kind of Holocaust Artist: Auschwitz Survivor David Olère’s...
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...
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