Holocaust experts spar over Lithuania’s Shoah policies

27.11.2011                      01.Kislev. 5772                      Rosch Chodesch

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Holocaust experts spar over Lithuania’s Shoah policies

Speakers heatedly debate whether Vilnius is taking bold steps forward, or whitewashing past.

An academic debate at a conference about Holocaust remembrance in Lithuania turned into a row on Thursday when two speakers at the gathering in Jerusalem exchanged accusations.
Efraim Zuroff, the director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Israel, lashed out at Sarunas Liekis, a professor at Vytautas Magnus University and former director of the Vilnius Yiddish Institute, saying he fired a Yiddish scholar who criticized the government’s Holocaust remembrance policy….