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Back in Eastern Europe: Part Two

‘Jerusalem of Lithuania’ remains witness to the horrors of the Nazi genocide and their willing collaborators

Israel KasnettOctober 6, 2022

Lithuania’s Prime Minister Ingride Simonyte told JNS there is always more to do in terms of Holocaust education. “The main point is to be constant,” she said. “Not to just do a lot now and then nothing. It is not the intensity that matters, but the consistency.”

Vilna’s largest synagogue, which was damaged during the Holocaust in a Nazi bombing raid and destroyed completely by the Soviets after the war, has been replaced by a nondescript, two-story building and nothing but a plaque and sculpture of the Vilna Gaon remain in the area. Photo by Israel Kasnett.

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