Jewish Partisans from World War II are now being prosecuted in Lithuania. It seems part of a denial of the Holocaust because the argument is that these “Soviets” (since all Jews were Soviets) killed Lithuanian citizens. I’ve written about this before but
this story was made immediate to me by a ceremony to honor Rachel Margolis at Beit Leyvick today. The children the group at Beit Leyvick sang the Partisan Song and we in the audience melted.
The audience by the way was composed mostly of Partisans, and their praise of Rachel MArgolis stemmed not from her military activities, which were not agressive, but from her archival work in preserving documentation of Lithuanian participation in atrocities. This is something my mother always asserted – that the Lithuanians were far more ardent than the Nazis and took great pleasure in their ‘work.’ I’ll try to post some links to the Leyvick pictures soon.
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