8-12 May 2011 Facebook Debate
O P I N I O N FACEBOOK DISCUSSION AS ON 12 MAY 2011: Current version is available on FB at:...
View ArticleVáclav Havel and the Prague Declaration
O P I N I O N by Efraim Zuroff I hate to spoil the Havel and the Jews festival in the wake of his demise, but I feel that it is important to point out a terrible mistake […]
View ArticleEU Ambassador to Afghanistan Writes in the Wall Street Journal that Nazi Rule...
The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Israel Office today released a statement in which its director, Holocaust historian Dr. Efraim Zuroff, calls for an apology from the European Union’s ambassador to...
View ArticleMarch 11th: A Grand Opportunity for the Lithuanian Human Rights Community —...
O P I N I O N by Dovid Katz When three of us from the DefendingHistory.com community headed out from Vilnius on February 16th to confront the neo-Nazi march in central Kaunas, we were sure we would be...
View ArticleHolocaust Survivors Picket TA ‘Gala’ Where South African Bigwigs Honor...
Kovno Ghetto Survivor and Resistance Hero Joe Melamed, 87, Leads March 5th 2012 Picket Line Against “Sellout Gala” at the Tel Aviv Dan Panorama MORE IMAGES Lithuanian Foreign Minister and Brothers...
View ArticleDH Editor in the Neo-Nazi, Far-Right and Fellow Traveler Imagination
SELECTION … 1 April 2013. April Fool’s Day image featured on the Zeppelinus site, and the FB blog pages of both Zeppelinus and Mr. Vytenis Petrusevičius. TRANSLATION: “Blogger Zeppelins blocked!...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Yale History Professor Timothy Snyder
O P I N I O N by Dovid Katz NOTE: This is an authorized republication of today’s letter, which first appeared in the online Algemeiner Journal. [Update: It then appeared in the AJ's print edition on...
View ArticleEfraim Zuroff Responds to Tablet Magazine Essay on Timothy Snyder
O P I N I O N by Efraim Zuroff The following comment first appeared in the discussion following David Mikics’s Tablet magazine article on Timothy Snyder (“The Diplomat of Shoah History. Does Yale...
View ArticleEfraim Zuroff Comments on Facebook on Next Tuesday’s Zingeris Event at Yivo...
Efraim Zuroff, the Holocaust historian, Nazi-hunter and author, today posted the following message on his Facebook page. It is reproduced here with the permission of Dr. Zuroff, who is director of the...
View ArticlePardoning Nazism, in the Name of Lithuanian-Jewish Relations
O P I N I O N by Efraim Zuroff reprinted with the author’s permission from today’s Times of Israel This week, one of the more shameful events in Lithuanian-Jewish relations since the Baltic republic...
View ArticleThe Disquieting 2010-2012 Record of the American Embassy in Vilnius, Lithuania
April 2010: The Wiesenthal Center’s Dr. Efraim Zuroff comments (in the Guardian) on the American ambassador’s assurance that “The United States and Lithuania are partners in the fight against...
View ArticleLandsbergis’s New Book Tries (Yet Again) to Sanitize the 1941 Hitlerist...
B O O K S by Geoff Vasil Vytautas Landsbergis, Rezistencijos pradžia [“The Beginning of the Resistance: June 1941: Documents on the Six-Week Provisional Government of Lithuania”], Vilnius 2012. MEP...
View ArticleEstonia’s Severe Case of Holocaust Amnesia
O P I N I O N by Efraim Zuroff From today’s Times of Israel. The visit to Israel of a foreign prime minister used to be a big deal. That’s why there were so many photos of Burmese head […]
View ArticleDr. Efraim Zuroff’s Speech at the Annual Memorial for Lithuanian Holocaust...
O P I N I O N by Efraim Zuroff Authorized English translation of Dr. Zuroff’s speech at the annual commemoration event held by the Association of Lithuanian Jews in Israel, received from the Israel...
View ArticleZuroff Slams Vilnius Genocide Center’s Latest Attempt to Massage Figures (and...
In a statement issued in Jerusalem today, the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Israel director Dr. Efraim Zuroff noted two major flaws in a recent report issued by the state-sponsored Genocide Center in...
View ArticleProfessor Pinchos Fridberg on the Higher Arithmetic of the Lithuanian Holocaust
Высшая арифметика истории Холокоста в Литве Пинхос Фридберг Abstract Перед вами статья, оформленная в полном соответствии с требованиями, предъявляемыми к научным статьям: имеются все пункты от...
View ArticleWiesenthal Center’s Israel Office Releases 2007 Correspondence with LA Board...
Editor’s note: The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Israel office today released for the record the following September 2007 email exchange with the director of the Los Angeles based “Friends of the Vilnius...
View ArticleFilm, Video, Radio
ADVERTISEMENT See also DH sections on: ARTS, BOOKS, FILM, MUSIC Films on DH.com topics: • Defending Holocaust History by Richard Bloom (2013). Now on Youtube. • Rewriting History by Marc Radomsky and...
View ArticleEfraim Zuroff Interviewed in Belgrade, Serbia by Aleksandar Roknić
I N T E R V I E W Efraim Zuroff is interviewed in Belgrade by Aleksandar Roknić. Translation from Danas, 28 December 2013, by Vesna Milosevic. Efraim Zuroff: World War II History is Being Rewritten...
View ArticleIsrael Chronicle
[most recent update] Jump to: 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 earlier See also our Israel Section Also: section on the “political department” of Yad Vashem. Readers are invited...
View ArticleEfraim Zuroff on Tablet Magazine’s Co-Sponsorship of Lithuanian Government’s...
Dr. Efraim Zuroff, Holocaust historian, Nazi-hunter, and director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Israel office, has posted the following comment on the website of Tablet magazine, as one of the...
View ArticleLithuanian-Jewish Affairs: Three Events
(Reposted from today’s Jerusalem Post) O P I N I O N by Efraim Zuroff Three events took place this weekend which reflect the ambiguities of contemporary Jewish life in the Baltics and particularly in...
View ArticleOut On Ellis Street in San Francisco
O P I N I O N Members of the US-based “Litvak SIG” (both those on the free lists, and those who paid their $36 a year dues for full membership), have been informed of the following event and the book […]
View ArticleRespublika “Slightly” Edits Efraim Zuroff’s Obituary for Shimon Alperovich
M E D I A W A T C H Vitas Tomkus’s daily tabloid, Respublika has, alongside its sister title, Vakaro Žinios (Evening News, also owned by Tomkus) in many views inflicted tangible damage upon Lithuania...
View Article70th Anniversary of D-Day
Ceremonies in Normandy; But Did Something Land Under the Radar in Washington DC? By stealth out of the East? A Shock for Veterans, Holocaust Survivors & their Families: US Congress Approves Mixed...
View ArticleHungary’s Supreme Court Forbids Local Media to Use the Term “Far Right” in...
JERUSALEM—The Simon Wiesenthal Center today harshly criticized a decision by Hungary’s Supreme Court which recently ruled that local media cannot refer to the Jobbik party as “far right.” UPDATE: See...
View ArticleLatvian Musical that Sanitizes Holocaust Perpetrator Starts its Grand Tour
New Musical, “Sugar Herbert Sugar” Glorifies Herberts Cukurs ——— REACTIONS: From Jerusalem: EFRAIM ZUROFF IN I24; IN THE JERUSALEM POST; IN THE LONDON JEWISH CHRONICLE From Riga: ALEKSANDRS FEIGMANIS...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Inna Rogatchi
O P I N I O N ◊ Dear Dr. Rogatchi, Warm congratulations on your excellent film, The Lessons of Survival. Conversations with Simon Wiesenthal. We encourage all our readers to see the film, and those who...
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Each author is exclusively responsible for his or her signed contribution. Genrich Agranovski Shimon Alperovich Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis Yitzhak Arad Evaldas Balčiūnas Stanley H. Barkan Ruth...
View ArticleWhy Christine Beresniova is Out of Order
O P I N I O N by Geoff Vasil I’ve never met Christine Beresniova, but I’ve followed her career, so to speak, through the media and mutual acquaintances, and wish her only the best. She first came to […]
View ArticleEfraim Zuroff: Putin Should be Invited to Auschwitz
This authorized translation into Russian of Efraim Zuroff’s op-ed, “Putin Should Be Invited to Auschwitz” appears here by permission of the author. The original English text was published in 1.24news...
View ArticleWiesenthal Center Slams Latvian Veto of Holocaust Exhibition at UNESCO
JERUSALEM—The Simon Wiesenthal Center today harshly criticized steps taken by the Latvian delegation to UNESCO which effectively cancelled an exhibition about the Holocaust in Latvia scheduled to open...
View ArticleWiesenthal Center Blasts Vilnius Genocide Center’s Involvement in Jewish...
The Simon Wiesenthal Center today issued a statement expressing dismay that Vilnius’s state-sponsored Genocide Center (full name: Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania) was included in...
View ArticleJewish Community’s Formal Reply to Dr. Efraim Zuroff
The following statement appeared today on the website of the Jewish Community of Lithuania: STATEMENT BY THE JEWISH (LITVAK) COMMUNITY It is not surprising that experienced journalists and...
View ArticleWiesenthal Center’s Efraim Zuroff Writes to Mayor of Kaunas on Neo-Nazi March
JERUSALEM—The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Israel office here today released the text of a letter sent by director Dr. Efraim Zuroff to the mayor of Kaunas, Lithuania, Andrius Kupčinskas, concerning the...
View ArticleText of Efraim Zuroff’s Prerecorded April 17th Video Address to Vilnius...
◊ O P I N I O N by Efraim Zuroff The following text is the authorized English transcription of the text of Dr. Efraim Zuroff’s prefilmed video address that formed part of the program at a conference on...
View ArticleJerusalem Debate on Antisemitism in Lithuania: Deputy Foreign Minister and...
Debate in Jerusalem, at World Forum for Combating Antisemitism, at Session on Holocaust Denial and Distortion in Eastern Europe ◊ I: Summary document released by the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry boasts...
View ArticleLithuanian Translation of Efraim Zuroff’s 17 April 2015 Vilnius Conference...
O P I N I O N by Efraim Zuroff ◊ Note: Authorized Lithuanian translation, provided by the Being a Jew project, of the pre-recorded video address by Dr. Efraim Zuroff at the 17 April 2015 conference on...
View ArticleLegacy of Rūta Vanagaitė’s 17 April 2015 Conference at Vilnius City Hall
[updated] Tomas Venclova addresses Ruta Vanagaite’s conference at Vilnius City Hall on April 17, 2015. Photo: Julius Norwilla. ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF TOMAS VENCLOVA’S LECTURE CONFERENCE PRESS RELEASE...
View ArticleWiesenthal Center Praises Vytautas Bruveris’s Call for Investigating Scope of...
TAURAGĖ (TÁVRIK), LITHUANIA—The Simon Wiesenthal Center today praised an op-ed in the popular Lithuanian news portal Lrytas.lt by prominent journalist Vytautas Bruveris calling upon the government to...
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