The bill asks Lithuania to recognize the Provisional Government’s declaration as state law while the government’s own records preserve anti-Jewish “measures,” a Jewish concentration camp, a German ghetto order, and legislation directed specifically at Jews.

On June 23, 2025, Seimas member Vytautas Sinica announced a bill to recognize the June 23, 1941 declaration of Lithuania’s Provisional Government as an act of the Lithuanian state. The e-Seimas record lists the proposal as XVP-616, registered June 23, 2025. BNS reported that the bill itself asserts that the murder of Lithuania’s Jews took place despite the Provisional Government’s calls not to take repressive measures against Jewish residents. At a press conference at the Seimas, Sinica went further, saying the government condemned such repression and approved it in no form.

According to BNS, the bill concedes that guilt fell not only on the occupation regime but on individual Lithuanian citizens who collaborated with it, then declares that an occupied nation cannot be held responsible for crimes committed with the help of collaborators “of all nationalities, including Lithuanians.” The bill therefore asks the Seimas to adopt a legal act containing a historical exculpatory proposition about the Provisional Government itself.

The e-Seimas record listed XVP-616 as “Registered” when checked on September 24, 2026.

June 27: the cabinet disowned the spectacle and reserved the measures

The Dieckmann–Sužiedėlis study published by Lithuania’s International Commission reproduces the substance of the Provisional Government’s June 27 cabinet minutes. Minister Vytautas Landsbergis-Žemkalnis reported the “extremely brutal” attacks on Jews at the Lietūkis garage. The ministers asked that Lithuanian partisans and civilians avoid public executions of Jews.

In the Commission report’s English translation, the same minutes exempted “all those measures which must be taken against the Jews for their communist activities and damage inflicted upon the German Wehrmacht.” The entry also recorded the cabinet’s claim that the perpetrators of the Lietūkis crimes had nothing to do with the activist headquarters, the partisan headquarters, or the Provisional Government. The cabinet disowned the killers and reserved the measures in the same record.

The cabinet record contradicts the bill’s proposition that the government opposed anti-Jewish repression as such. It objected to public executions while preserving........

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