Swedish 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 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 to be shown the...
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 ArticleLatvian Musical that Glorifies Holocaust Mass Murderer Opens on October 11th
New Musical, “Sugar Herbert Sugar” Glorifies Herberts Cukurs ——— REACTIONS: From Jerusalem: EFRAIM ZUROFF IN I24 From Riga: ALEKSANDRS FEIGMANIS IN DEFENDING HISTORY Tickets now available online for...
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) ◊ I know persons within my circle of acquaintances who refuse to look at the terrible pictures that this video exhibits....
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 ArticlePeter Jukes Exposes “Documentary” that Glorifies Nazi Collaborators
LONDON—British author Peter Jukes, best known for his screenplays, literary criticism and political journalism, tweeted today on the release in the United States of a new “documentary film” that...
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 ArticleRachel Kostanian, Head of Vilnius’s ‘Green House’ and Champion of Holocaust...
Rachel Kostanian, the famed one-woman bastion holding off the state-sponsored hordes of ultranationalist Holocaust revisionism, continues to lead The Green House, as the Holocaust section of...
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...
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