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The Green House

    Pamėnkalnio 12, Vilnius Note: See also our report on the October 2010 re-opening of the Green House following extensive renovations. Black and white photos below are©Richard Schofield. Rachel...

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Lithuanian Parliament and Genocide Research Center planning 2011 Film to...

Some highly respected international scholars have been persuaded to participate in a film which some leaders of Holocaust Survivor organizations around the world fear will be a cover-up for the main...

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Has LRG Media (UK) been Compromised?

The prestigious British-based LRG Media, a multimedia company with an impressive record of achievements and awards, has apparently been targeted by certain elements in Lithuanian government circles as...

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A ‘Documentary Film’ Tries to Establish the Legend of the ‘Uprising of the...

O P I N I O N by Milan Chersonski On September 28th 2010, the Parliament of Lithuania announced that 2011 would be the Year of Commemoration of Battles for Freedom and Great Losses. This mysterious...

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‘Day and Night’ is an Epoch-Making Play for Modern Lithuania

O P I N I O N / R E V I E W by Birutė Ušinskaitė It was just another rainy and not overly cold evening in early December of the year 2011, but the play I was privileged […]

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A Hidden Monument in Vilnius — Hopelessly Invisible?

In response to several requests from the United States, DefendingHistory.com this week asked three colleagues who found themselves in Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital, to try to see the “Flame of Hope”...

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Light and Darkness Do Not Mix

O P I N I O N by Geoff Vasil   Saulius Beržinis is an astounding filmmaker. Somehow the Lithuanian director of documentaries has a knack for drawing out frank admissions on camera, even from...

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Explosive Reactions to Saulius Berzhinis’s New Film on the Holocaust in...

O P I N I O N  /  F I L M   R E V I E W by Milan Chersonski   There has recently been extensive Lithuanian media coverage of a conflict between the authorities of the city […]

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Executive Director of “Red-Brown Commission” Doubts Lithuanian Jews were...

O P I N I O N A number of viewers of the new Australian documentary film Rewriting History have submitted to DefendingHistory near-identical transcripts of a statement on camera, made to the film’s...

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It’s Not Just About the New Tuskulėnai “Peace Park” in Vilnius

O P I N I O N by Milan Chersonski Milan Chersonski (Chersonskij), longtime editor (1999-2011) of Jerusalem of Lithuania, quadrilingual (English-Lithuanian-Russian-Yiddish) newspaper of the Jewish...

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Deception Exposed: The New Documentary Film “Rewriting History”

F I L M by Graeme Blundell NOTE: This review appeared in today’s Australian. The original publication is available here and here. This is one of those documentaries that is so compelling and so...

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US Documentary Film Maker Releases Correspondence with Yad Vashem on Alliance...

The American documentary film maker Richard Bloom, who has produced a number of documentaries on the Holocaust, today released for publication his recent correspondence with Yad Vashem. He said his...

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“Rewriting History” on the Road in the USA

Rewriting History: New Documentary Film on the Shocking New Holocaust Revisionism in Eastern Europe REVIEWS OF REWRITING HISTORY Film’s website  ◊  Sign the Seventy Years Declaration  ◊  Donate HERE ◊...

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Reviews and Coverage of the Australian Documentary Film “Rewriting History”

[date of last update]   www.Rewriting-History.org FACEBOOK PAGE US SCREENING TOUR 2013 The film features exclusive commentary by historians Efraim Zuroff and Konrad Kwiet; Survivors Fania Yocheles...

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Keep the Local History Out of Mind?

REVIEW OF KEEP ME IN MIND by Geoff Vasil   The Contemporary Art Center’s reading room in Vilnius is hosting an unusual-for-Lithuania Holocaust event called Keep Me in Mind. Briefly, visitors are...

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A Musical Tribute to the Rumbula Victims

M U S I C   /   O P I N I O N by Roland Binet (Braine-l’Alleud, Belgium)   SOUND TRACKS OF THE AUTHOR’S COMPOSITIONS: Rumbula Threnody   Until 2009 I felt secure. I felt I knew everything there […]

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Latvian State Dance Troupe Displays Nazi Swastika

R E P O R T / O P I N I O N by Graeme Atkinson (Hope Not Hate) and Monica Lowenberg (DefendingHistory.com) Source: HOPE not hate/DefendingHistory.com Sunday, 24 November 2013.   A dance ensemble of the...

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Raising Cain on the Resurrection of Abel

O P I N I O N by Geoff Vasil   And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. Genesis 3:13 […]

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Artists 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....

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The 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 […]

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