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Riga, Capital of European Culture: Waffen SS, Stags and Silence?



O P I N I O N

by Monica Lowenberg

The UK’s home secretary Theresa May, the Hungarian Jobbik party, and Holocaust Memorial Day have all been in the press lately. Reading how the leader of pro-Nazi Jobbik party was, in the interests of free speech, allowed to hold his rally in Hyde Park, I have to question why Ms. May allowed this man entry into the UK and hadn’t called his racist attitudes, “unacceptable” as she had in the past with, “Every Muslim should be a terrorist” Zakir Naik. What had changed?

In the capital of European culture? Waffen SS Calendar (Riga 2014)

In the Capital of European Culture: Waffen SS Calendar (Riga 2014)

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Film, Video, Radio



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Films on DH.com topics:

• Defending Holocaust History by Richard Bloom (2013). Now on Youtube.

• Rewriting History by Marc Radomsky and Danny Ben-Moshe (2012). Reviews2013 USA screening tourFacebook pageSYD siteBackground of Prague Declaration.

• When Double Genocide means Single Genocide by Gerit Ziegler, Frank Brendle, Arndt Beck (2012).

• CNN documentary featuring Efraim Zuroff in Lithuania: completed but (for unknown reasons) never aired. Can it be rescued by a non-profit organization? See also: The Last Nazi Hunter, by Nitza Gonen, aired on Israeli television in 2012 [in Hebrew].

• RT clip on honoring Waffen SS “Nazi heroes” in Riga, Latvia.

• Monica Lowenberg’s Speak No Evil segment on Latvia (at timecode 3:54).

• LOST: Zoon Politikon of European Union by Audrius Lelkaitis. Interview with Defending History editor (in three short segments) shortly after the one hour mark (1:00) on the time code.

• Liza ruft! by Christian Carlsen (in post-production, due in mid 2014).

• Assorted clips.

Radio:

• BBC World Service’s Heart and Soul by Wendy Robbins.

• BBC News The Battle for Memory by Tim Whewell.

• Salford City Radio interviews Monica Lowenberg.

 

On Lithuanian Holocaust Rescuers:

• The Pit of Life and Torment, by Lilija Kopač, Danutė Selčinskaja, Algis Liutkevičius and Anatolijus Tetiušinas, based on the life story of Moyshe Kukliansky and his family.

 On the Lithuanian Holocaust:

• Gitel by Robert Mullan [feature film].

• An Elegy for Honey and Tar by Alicija Žukauskaitė [documentary].

• Saulius Beržinis and Ona Biveinienė on the Holocaust in Jurbarkas [documentary].

• Lithuanians. Jews. Neighbors by Jonas Morkus and Vaidotas Reivytis [documentary].

The Holocaust in Latvia:

•  The Riga Ghetto by Juergen Hobrecht.  Monica Lowenberg’s speech at the Berlin premiere (June 2014).

On women’s rights and East European neo-Nazis:

• Feminism and Anti-Fascism in Lithuania; see also Lina Žigelytė’s essay.

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Summary Coverage of 1-2 December 2013 London Events at ORT and Westminster Synagogue Sponsored by Lithuanian Embassy



Monica Lowenberg Issues Public Letter on Lithuanian Embassy Event

Embassy’s Latest PR Initiative Entangles Westminster Synagogue and British ORT

Lowenberg Family Severs Lifelong ORT Ties

EVENT ORGANIZERS DID NOT ALLOW PETITION TO BE READ OUT

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Monica Lowenberg Releases Text of Letter to British ORT on Latest Lithuanian Embassy Sponsored “Litvak Do” in London



O P I N I O N

by Monica Lowenberg

Monica Lowenberg’s office has released for publication the following public letter sent to British ORT. 


 

British ORT, FAO The Chief Executive, Mr. Dan Green

25 November 2013

Dear Mr. Green,

It is with deep regret that my 90 year old father, Ernest Lowenberg, former Berlin ORT pupil and I write to you today.

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Riga, Roots and Reflections


 


M E M O I R S   /   O P I N I O N

by Monica Lowenberg

 

In 2011, I made my first journey to Riga, the capital city of Latvia.

A few months before, I had been tracked down by two distant cousins on a genealogy site, quite out of the blue. I remember the strange feeling I had when one of them asked me if I felt “Latvian.” Latvian? German Christian, German Jewish, British, yes — but Latvian Jewish? No.

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Exposé in Lithuania


Three Major Lithuanian Sites Claim that Neo-Nazi Internet Figure “Zeppelinus,” a Hater of Poles, Jews, Roma, Russians, Blacks and Gays is actually…

zeppelinus hasidic kid with gun

Director of the Economic Ministry’s Human Resources Dept and the Government’s Rep on the “Tripartite Council”

Editor of Defending History is a Favorite Zeppelinus Target

One of Zeppelinus’s 2013 productions…


British Foreign Office on Latvia’s National Waffen SS Fest:

UK’S MINISTER FOR EUROPE ENTERS THE FRAY

MONICA LOWENBERG IN THE LONDON JEWISH NEWS

ANNA SHEINMAN IN THE JEWISH CHRONICLE

BACKGROUND: DAVID CESARANI IN THE GUARDIAN

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David Lidington (r) with Michal Kaminski in the European Parliament

UK Europe Minister David Lidington (right) with Poland’s Holocaust-distorting, gay-bashing MEP M. Kaminski

Monica Lowenberg Responds in Algemeiner.com & Hope Not Hate; With Classic British Tolerance, Foreign Office Also Posts Her Essay; In the London Jewish News

SEE UK PAGE; ALSO: VYTENIS POVILAS ANDRIUKAITISPETER BEAUMONT; BOB BLACKMANMARTIN BRIGHT; RICHARD BRODSKYGORDON BROWNSIMON BUTT; DAVID CESARANI; LEONIDAS DONSKIS;  MARCUS DYSCH; JONATHAN FREEDLAND(2); BARRY GARDINERAMELIA GENTLEMAN;  SIR MARTIN GILBERT; ESTHER GOLDBERGMEHDI HASANCLEMENS HENI (2); LORD JANNER OF BRAUNSTONE; DOVID KATZ, (2); EDWARD LUCAS; JAMES MACINTYREDENIS MACSHANE, (2); JOHN MANN; MANN, BOTTOMLEY & RUSSELL; RABBI BARRY MARCUSEDWARD McMILLAN-SCOTT;  SEUMAS MILNEMARCUS PAPADOPOULOS; LEIGH PHILLIPSTESSA RAJAKWENDY ROBBINS; ANNA SLATEREMMA STOCKGEOFF VASIL; TIM WHEWELL; EFRAIM ZUROFF, (2)

UK SIGNATORIES TO THE SEVENTY YEARS DECLARATION

EARLY DAY MOTIONS IN THE UK PARLIAMENT: 2161; 27502866
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But the Council of Europe Takes a Rather Different View  (§ 87):

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Can’t the West “Just Say No” to Nazi-Worship in the Eastern EU?

NEW CALLS (IN 2013) FOR LITHUANIAN PARLIAMENT TO RECOGNIZE STATEMENT OF 1941 HITLERIST HOLOCAUST COLLABORATORS AS “DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE”. AN APPARENT ATTEMPT TO REVIVE THE EARLIER “LIEKIS PLAN” FOR THE LOCAL HOLOCAUST PERPETRATORS TO BE ENSHRINED IN LAW AS “INDEPENDENCE HEROES”.

white armbanders kaunas 1941

“Freedom fighters” force Jewish women to march to their humiliation and murder in Kaunas (Kovno) in 1941. Some want to glorify the perpetrators in an EU/NATO parliament.

MEANWHILE, HISTORIC PRESIDENTIAL PALACE IS PROVIDED AS VENUE TO GLORIFY A PREWAR PRO-FASCIST POLITICIAN. WITH SUPPORT FROM LAWIN LAW FIRM AND THE ČIURLIONIS ART MUSEUMYAD VASHEM ON AUGUSTINAS VOLDEMARAS

LESS THEN ONE YEAR SINCE THE STATE REBURIED WITH FULL HONORS AND GLORIFIED THE 1941 NAZI PUPPET PRIME MINISTER

RELATED: Images from Riga’s 2013 Waffen SS festLithuania glorifies its 1941 Nazi puppet prime minister. University lecture hall and street names honor collaborators.  Estonia.  Hungary.  Ukraine


2013 Vilna Ghetto PR Fest

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Secret Plan to Raise Millions for “Disneyland” Project that Excludes Living Jewish Community

Vilna Ghetto street date unknown

BUT NO PUBLIC APOLOGIES FOR THE DEFAMED JEWISH PARTISAN HEROES OF VILNA AND KOVNO GHETTOS

Rachel Margolis and Chen Ivri Apter

BACKGROUND ♦ DR. YITZHAK ARAD ♦ MS. FANIA BRANTSOVSKY ♦ PROF. SARA GINAITĖ ♦ DR. RACHEL MARGOLIS ♦ ATTORNEY JOSEPH MELAMED

Renewed International Petition

Seven Simple Solutions Proposed

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THE DISAPPEARING PARTISAN FORT IN THE FOREST THAT WAS HOME TO ESCAPEES FROM THE VILNA GHETTO. WILL IT BE PRESERVED?  ONE OF “TOP 10 OVERLOOKED JEWISH HERITAGE SITES FROM AROUND THE GLOBE”

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SITE OF “GREAT PROVOCATION” AND VILNA GHETTO GATE: WILL IT BE MARKED?

VILNIUS SURVIVOR BATTLES DEFAMATION BY “RED-BROWN COMMISSION”

SUTZKEVER TRANSLATION PRIZE

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MORE BACKGROUND: A 2002 Jewish community view on the “Disneyland Ghetto” project;  2009 Lithuanian parliament perspective from the then ruling party


Rewriting History: New Documentary Film on the Shocking New Holocaust Revisionism in Eastern Europe

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The film features exclusive commentary by historians Efraim Zuroff and Konrad Kwiet; Survivors Fania Yocheles Brantsovsky and Dobke Yonis; Vilnius activists: former Green House Holocaust museum director Rachel Kostanian and former Vilnius University Yiddish professor Dovid Katz; European parliamentarians Denis MacShaneJohn MannMartin SchulzGert Weisskirchen; Sensational responses from Lithuanian government officials including red-brown commission boss Ronaldas Račinskas and the prosecutor, Rimvydas Valentukevičiuswho “investigates” Holocaust survivors (none of whom were ever charged with anything or received a public apology)MEP Vytautas Landsbergis later withheld permission for inclusion of his own taped interview…


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December 2012 London Conference at UCL and Protest (Box Coverage to 24 Dec)



DOCUMENTS: Petition (with links; with select signatures) ◊ Petitioner’s dossierUPDATES: Petition’s first effect ◊ Jewish Chronicle ◊ London Jewish News ◊ UCL Hebrew Dept lets Holocaust survivors down ◊ Disinformation campaign ◊ Monica Lowenberg looks back at the events (24 Dec. 2012)LETTERS: Alumnus writes to provost (& to ambassador) ◊ Ruth Barnett ◊ Hans Coppi  (English) ◊ (Rachel Margolis’s cousin) Budd Margolis ◊ Gert Weisskirchen

PROTEST AT LITHUANIAN EMBASSY IN LONDON

VIDEO FROM THE EVENT: 12, and 3

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UCL Hebrew-Jewish Studies Dept Rejects Monica Lowenberg’s Request for Five Minutes to Read Petition at Lithuanian Government Sponsored Conference


London observers were wondering whether the medal Professor Antony Polonsky received earlier this year from the president of Lithuania for his PR work for the Lithuanian government may have something to do with his denial of Monica Lowenberg’s request, asking for five minutes to read out at next week’s conference her petition to the Lithuanian government, proposing constructive solutions to the issues at hand. The petition has to date garnered over 250 signatories from two dozen countries. The following is the correspondence, which started with Ms. Lowenberg’s appeal to Professor Ada Rapoport-Albert and Dr. Francois Guesnet. Dr. Guesnet, the Corob Reader in Jewish History at UCL is one of the conference coordinators on behalf of the Lithuanian government funded institutions financing the conference. Holocaust survivors consulted cannot understand why safe and secure academics who hold high posts at Western institutions should so fear “even to give five minutes for somebody else to come and disagree” with the conference’s pay-masters in the freedom of the British capital.

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The Text of Monica Lowenberg’s Petition on Change.org



The following is a verbatim reprint of Monica Lowenberg’s December 2012 petition on Change.org. Embedded links have been added, marked by underlining, referring readers to further coverage on Defending History pages which link to various  sources providing more background.


Petitioning HE Ambassador Asta Skaisgirytė Liauškienė

 This petition will be delivered to:

  • Lithuanian Ambassador for London, UK
  • HE Ambassador Asta Skaisgirytė Liauškienė

Abandon state sponsored Anti-Semitism and Holocaust Obfuscation

  •  Petition by
  •  Monica Lowenberg
  •  London, United Kingdom

Following the announcement that the Lithuanian Embassy is one of the generous co-sponsors of this month’s London conference on Jewish-Lithuanian issues including the Holocaust, we the undersigned ask the Embassy’s public support on the following urgent matters:

1) Rapid and elegant public apologies, released prior to the conference, to the Jewish Holocaust Survivors defamed in recent years by Lithuanian prosecutors, media and some government officials. The survivors are in their late 80s and 90s, making time essential if there is going to be a symbolic amelioration in the manner in which the Lithuanian state is ending a 700 year old history of Jewish settlement, and on what note, with the last survivors of the bona fide pre Holocaust generation. Most urgently, Rachel Margolis; also: Yitzhak Arad and Fania Brantsovsky and Joseph Melamed.

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Prankster Claiming to Represent Litvak Graveyard NGO Attempts to Divide Litvak Community



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The run-up to next week’s controversial Lithuanian-government sponsored conference on Lithuanian Jewish issues in London, which is sowing enough confusion as it is, was put into further disarray as it emerged that an email received by hundreds of people (from various forwarders) is apparently part of a curious hoax. The only discernible purpose seemed to be bring discord into the fragile ranks of the surviving Litvak camp by spreading a set of “symmetrical” false rumors.

Some of the emails were identified as originally coming from an official of an NGO, “Maceva” that is dedicated to the laudable cause of maintaining Lithuanian Jewish graveyards, but it is increasingly thought that this shocking attribution could well be part of the hoaxter’s agenda, and that an unambiguous denial — or apology —will be forthcoming from Maceva’s board of directors at the earliest possible opportunity.

The major two — actually three — pieces of disinformation being disseminated are:

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Monica Lowenberg’s Petition to the Lithuanian Ambassador to the UK, HE Asta Skaisgirytė-Liauškienė



The text of Monica Lowenberg’s petition that appeared today on Change.org. To sign please visit:

http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/he-ambassador-asta-skaisgiryt%C4%97-liau%C5%A1kien%C4%97-lithuanian-ambassador-london-uk-abandon-state-sponsored-anti-semitism-and-holocaust-obfuscation


Abandon state sponsored Antisemitism and Holocaust Obfuscation

  • To:
  • HE Ambassador Asta Skaisgirytė-Liauškienė
  • Lithuanian Ambassador for London, UK

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Authors



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 Barnett

Danny Ben-Moshe

Didier Bertin

Roland Binet

Aleksandras Bosas

Frank Brendle

Wyman Brent

Franziska Bruder

Milan Chersonski

Rachel Croucher

David Cukier

Algis Davidavičius

Leonidas Donskis

Aleksandrs Feigmanis

Pinchos Fridberg

Ira Gold

Eleonora Groisman

Clemens Heni

Leena Hietanen

Mikhail Iossel

Peter Jukes

Sergey Kanovich

Dovid Katz

Vilma Fiokla Kiurė

Regina Kopilevich

Rachel Kostanian

Faina Kukliansky

Joseph Levinson

Monica Lowenberg

Michael and Fausta Maass

Denis MacShane

Simon Malkes

Joseph Melamed

Ivo Mosley

Jacob Piliansky

Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe

Per Anders Rudling

Kamilė Rupeikaitė

Michael Shafir

Anna Shepherd

Ken Slade

Andres Spokoiny

Birutė Ušinskaitė

Geoff Vasil

Nida Vasiliauskaitė

Tomas Venclova

Vilhjálmur Örn Vilhjálmsson

Gert Weisskirchen

Olga Zabludoff

Lina Žigelytė

Efraim Zuroff

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