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Silvia FotiThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
The family story meant to save Jonas Noreika is the story that proves what his household knew. The bread, buns, and cottage-cheese pancakes carried to...
A Lithuanian state archive preserves the orders signed by my grandfather during the Holocaust: the seizure of Jewish property, the confinement of...
Comparing Europe’s Prosecution of Perpetrators — and Lithuania’s Low Ranking When people ask me where to place Lithuania on the European map of...
Archival evidence shows the Holocaust in Lithuania was not only imposed by Nazis but also enabled and administered by local institutions and actors. I...
Uncovering my grandfather’s role shattered my family’s past—and Lithuania’s national myth I grew up in a Lithuanian household in Chicago where...
How selective memory transforms perpetrators into “rescuers” I recently wrote about the irony of March 15—Lithuania’s Day of the Rescuers of...
After exposing my grandfather’s role in the Holocaust, I watched a nation double down on denial—and turn against those who speak out. I spent...
March 15–Day of Rescuers of Lithuanian Jews While Lithuania highlights 924 recognized rescuers, the deeper truth—illustrated even in the record of...