Glorification of Nazi Collaborators in Eastern Europe and its — Export to the...
[UPDATED] ◊ Armenia. Estonia. Latvia. Lithuania. Macedonia. Slovakia. Ukraine. Our take? This export of East European Holocaust revisionism is best exposed and countered now, before it becomes...
View ArticleRewriting of History in Brussels at a Strange New Museum: “House of European...
OPINION | MUSEUMS | PRAGUE PLATFORM | EU | BELGIUM ◊ by Tord Björk The Nazis wanted to exterminate a race and Karl Marx wanted to exterminate a social class. Our guide at the House of...
View ArticleOver In Zedelgem, Town in Belgium where Latvian Waffen SS Veterans Feel Most...
OPINION | ZEDELGEM | BELGIUM | EU | GLORIFICATION OF COLLABORATORS ◊ by Roland Binet (De Panne, Belgium) Zedelgem, a quiet Flemish town in West Flanders, was occupied by the Nazis between May...
View ArticleA Simple Victory for Decency and European Values in Zedelgem, Belgium: Waffen...
ZEDELGEM | BELGIUM | EU | LATVIA | GLORIFICATION OF COLLABORATORS ◊ by Roland Binet (De Panne, Belgium) The city council of Zedelgem, Belgium decided on December 3rd that the pro-Nazi Latvian...
View ArticleEvaldas Balčiūnas at Vilnius County Court Next Monday 15 June 2015
VILNIUS THIS MONDAY: FRIENDS OF HUMAN RIGHTS, FREE SPEECH AND DEFENDING HISTORY INVITED TO COME OBSERVE / SUPPORT OUR WRITER Evaldas Balčiūnas ◊ THIS MONDAY JUNE 15TH 2015 AT VILNIUS COUNTY COURT...
View ArticleHigh Intrigue Over the Fate of the Old Vilna Jewish Cemetery
by Dovid Katz Updates in [brackets] to 12 July 2015 ◊ VILNIUS—According to Lithuanian media sources, including the highly respected English-language Lithuania Tribune (now merged with Delfi.lt), the...
View ArticleVilnius’s Shnipishek Jewish Cemetery
O P I N I O N by Bernard Fryshman, PhD This article appeared in today’s edition of Yated Ne’eman. The PDF of the original is available here. ◊ First, a brief review: In June 2005, Reb Chizkiya...
View ArticleLithuania’s Chief Rabbi Felt Threatened with Deportation after Opposing...
VILNIUS—Flying today from Vilnius airport on a routine commute to Israel, the chief rabbi of Lithuania, Rabbi Chaim Burshtein, who has held the post for over a decade, experienced what he felt was...
View ArticleEuropean Commission Redirects Cemetery Inquiry to Lith. Finance Ministry,...
D O C U M E N T S / C E M E T E R I E S / P I R A M Ó N T VILNIUS—The following is the reply received to an […]
View ArticleNew York Descendant of Jews Buried at Piramónt Receives Reply from the...
THE PAPER TRAIL / THE OPPOSITION / DH SECTION / BACKGROUND Mr. Berel Fried of New York City, an Orthodox Jewish scholar and businessman, has authorized publication of the reply which he...
View ArticleFirst Moral Victory in the EU, in Effort to Prevent Unprecedented Desecration...
THE PAPER TRAIL / THE OPPOSITION / DH SECTION / BACKGROUND ◊ VILNIUS—Didier Bertin, head of a human rights society in France and a longtime member of the Defending History community, has...
View ArticleQuestion in the UK Parliament on the Old Jewish Cemetery in Vilnius
UK / P I R A M Ó N T / O P P O S I T I O N / C E M E T E R I E S / D O C U […]
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Holocaust Scholars and Educators in the Francophone World
OPINION | FRANCE | RED-BROWN COMMISSION | GENOCIDE CENTER ◊ Dear Colleagues: Re: Conference on the Lithuanian Holocaust scheduled for this week in Vilnius The newest Lithuanian “Double Genocide...
View ArticleImages from the February 16th 2016 Neo-Nazi March in Kaunas, Lithuania
KAUNAS MARCHES | NEO-NAZI MARCHES | ANTISEMITISM ◊ KAUNAS—For the fifth year running, the Defending History team was the only Lithuania-based monitoring unit on site to observe and record the neo-Nazi...
View ArticleNeo-Nazis Given Central Vilnius Again on March 11th Independence Day
PRO-NAZI MARCHES | VILNIUS MARCHES | HUMAN RIGHTS | RACISM | OPINION by Vilma Fiokla Kiurė (with additional input and photos by Evaldas Balčiūnas, Milan Chersonski, and Julius Norwilla) ◊...
View ArticleGerman Group Arrested Trying to Enter Latvia for Peaceful Protest Against 16...
OPINION | LATVIA | FREE SPEECH | NEO-NAZI MARCHES | RIGA MARCHES | COLLABORATORS GLORIFIED by Florian Gutsche ◊ RIGA—While Veterans of the Latvian legion of the Waffen-SS are allowed to march...
View ArticleLatvia Arrests Peaceful German Visitors Who Wanted to Protest Annual Waffen...
OPINION | LATVIA | FREE SPEECH | NEO-NAZI MARCHES | RIGA MARCHES | COLLABORATORS GLORIFIED by Frank Brendle ◊ Latvian authorities denied today entry for six German antifascists who intended...
View ArticleUK’s Europe Minister Again Fails to Offer Even Mild Criticism of Baltic...
UK | LATVIA | GLORIFICATION OF COLLABORATORS | PRO-NAZI MARCHES | DOCUMENTS ◊ LONDON—The following is the UK Minister for Europe’s 8 April 2016 reply to his former shadow counterpart, Labour MP...
View ArticleLatvia’s Ambassador to the UK Replies to Gareth Thomas MP on Annual Waffen SS...
UK | LATVIA | GLORIFICATION OF COLLABORATORS | PRO-NAZI MARCHES | DOCUMENTS ◊ LONDON—The following is the 16 April 2016 reply of the Latvian ambassador to the UK Aandris Teikmanis to MP Gareth...
View ArticleJews and Other Minorities in Eastern Europe Concerned by EU Chief’s Addition...
CEMETERY PAPER TRAIL | OPPOSITION TO DATE | DH SECTION | BACKGROUND ◊ BRUSSELS—Back in October, 2015, high-level European Union spokesperson Chiara Adamo had replied to French human rights...
View Article“Prague Platform” Ensnares “European Shoah Legacy Institute” in Double Genocide
“Prague Platform” and Slovak government announce partnership with the “European Shoah Legacy Institute” (!) in organizing: EU Competition for a New Red-Brown, Mix-n-Match Memorial in Brussels; Students...
View ArticleDefending History Responds to Vilnius Architects’ Three “Visualizations” for...
Architects Publish Three Visualizations for National Convention Center Planned for Old Vilna Jewish Cemetery, Where Thousands Still Lie Buried But critics warn that property magnates, politicians, and...
View ArticleIs There Still A Breeding Ground for Ustaša in Croatia?
OPINION | CROATIA | COLLABORATORS GLORIFIED ◊ by Roland Binet (Braine-l’Alleud/Belgium) ◊ Croatia is a nation that has been bathed in blood during numerous conflicts, as the victim of the...
View ArticleHead of Lithuanian Jewish Community Calls on Mayor of Vilnius to Remove...
VILNIUS—Jewish Community chairperson Faina Kukliansky, a prominent lawyer here in the Lithuanian capital, today released on the community’s official website the text of her letter to the mayor of...
View ArticleIs Eastern European “Double Genocide” Revisionism Reaching Museums?
HISTORY | DOUBLE GENOCIDE | MUSEUMS | COLLABORATORS GLORIFIED ◊ by Dovid Katz This paper appeared today in Dapim: Studies on the Holocaust, published by Taylor and Francis. ABSTRACT: In contrast...
View ArticleCall for International Protest Against Latvian Gov. Granting Riga Center for...
BALTIC MARCHES | RIGA MARCHES | LATVIA | ANTISEMITISM | HUMAN RIGHTS ◊ by Monica Lowenberg (London) ◊ On 16 March 2017, in the Latvian capital of Riga, as in previous years since 1991, after a...
View ArticleState-Sponsored “Genocide Center” Issues Document that is “2017’s Jew-Witch...
OPINION | DOCUMENTS | BLAMING THE VICTIMS? | DOUBLE GENOCIDE | VILNIUS GENOCIDE CENTER | ANTISEMITISM ◊ by Dovid Katz ◊ VILNIUS—The following (text below) is a translation from Lithuanian of...
View ArticleNew Prague — Brussels Battle over European History?
PRAGUE PLATFORM | PRAGUE DECLARATION | DOUBLE GENOCIDE | EU ◊ Far-Right “Prague Platform” (Funded by EU Taxpayers) Complains that BRUSSELS “House of European History” Plan has “Neo-Marxist...
View ArticleDid Latvia’s Foreign Minister Just Honor an Author for a Book that Spews...
OPINION | LATVIA | FOREIGN MINISTRIES AND HOLOCAUST POLITICS | GLORIFYING COLLABORATORS | BOOKS | ANTISEMITISM ◊ by Alexander Gilman (Riga) ◊ Latvia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Edgars...
View ArticleCenter of Vilnius Again Gifted to 1,000 Far-Right & Neo-Nazi Marchers on...
VILNIUS MARCHES | KAUNAS MARCHES | REGIONAL PRO-NAZI MARCHES | COLLABORATORS GLORIFIED | ANTISEMITISM | EVENTS | OPINION ◊ By Defending History Staff Photos by Julius Norwilla, Ruta...
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 ArticleLithuania’s Museum of Holocaust Denial
Museums | Genocide Museum | Genocide Center | Double Genocide | Collaborators Glorified | Lithuania ◊ by Dovid Katz ◊ In today’s Tablet magazine… ◊ This past winter here in Vilnius, the charming...
View ArticleVilnius Jewish Community Calls on Lithuanian Gov. to Preserve Old Vilna...
LITHUANIAN JEWISH LIFE | OLD VILNA JEWISH CEMETERY | CEMETERIES | CHRISTIAN-JEWISH ISSUES ◊ VILNIUS—The 21 person democratically elected board of the Vilnius Jewish Community, representing the...
View ArticleLatvian Gov. Again Gifts Central Riga for Glorification of Nation’s Wartime...
RIGA MARCHES | VILNIUS MARCHES | KAUNAS MARCHES | PRO-NAZI MARCHES IN EASTERN EUROPE | GLORIFICATION OF COLLABORATORS | ANTISEMITISM ◊ AROUND 1000 TAKE PART IN 16 MARCH CENTRAL RIGA PARADE...
View ArticleOn the (Ab)use of Law to “Fix” Holocaust History
OPINION | DOUBLE GENOCIDE | FREE SPEECH | STATES’ MANIPULATION OF HISTORY ◊ by Dovid Katz This comment appeared in Mémoires en Jeu (Memory at Stake), no. 9, (2010). ◊ In recent years, a number of...
View ArticleFar Right Again Granted Central Vilnius on Feb. 16 Independence Day; They Vow...
◊ They Promise to Glorify Nazi Collaborators Škirpa, Noreika and Brazaitis Facebook announcement; Event rep’s interview DH coverage of past Vilnius marches; Kaunas marches; Riga marches. See also...
View ArticleAntisemitism at the Aalst Carnival Parade in Belgium
ANTISEMITISM | BELGIUM | EU | OPINION ◊ by Roland Binet (Braine-l’Alleud, Belgium) ◊ Last month, on February 23, 2020, hundreds of individuals, associations and decorated wagons marched or rolled...
View ArticleLithuania’s Supreme Administrative Court Reconfirms ‘National Hero’ Status of...
THE NOREIKA DEBATE FROM 2012 ONWARD | COLLABORATGORS GLORIFIED | DOUBLE GENOCIDE ◊ VILNIUS—Coronavirus or not, Vilnius’s Supreme Administrative Court yesterday issued its dismissal of the appeal...
View ArticleRespectfully Disagreeing with Professor Timothy Snyder
[last updated] ◊ THE LATEST Reviews of Bloodlands Reviews of Black Earth Instrumentalization? 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 ◊ This journal holds leading historian Professor Timothy Snyder (Yale...
View ArticleWrong Choice for the New “Flemish Canon” in Flanders Region of Belgium
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...
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