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Lithuania's Jewish community wants data on Holocaust perpetrators made public

BC, Vilnius, 12.02.2016.Print version

Lithuania's Jewish community on Friday called for publicity of the “general data” of about 2,000 persons whom a historical survey found as possible contributors to the Holocaust during World War II, reports LETA/BNS.

 

The proposal was stated in an address of the community's leader Faina Kukliansky to the Prosecutor General's Office and the Genocide and Resistance Research Centrer published on Friday.

 

Kukliansky suggests announcing the part of the listed persons who were directly involved in the massacres and those who were indirect perpetrators, the share who have been sentenced and the part of the persons honored by the state.

 

She told BNS Lithuania on Friday that it is important for the society to get explanations of the list. In Kukliansky's opinion, the state could give publicity to names of the persons in connection to whom court proceedings have been completed.

 

"The Jewish community of Lithuania (Litvaks) believe that avoiding to publish the list may have negative consequences on the national and the international level, it may trigger various theories that would humiliate the name of Lithuania," she said in the address.

 

Kukliansky also suggested that prosecutors should check the list for persons who have not been sentenced but are still alive and bring them to justice.

 

The Genocide and Resistance Research Center has drafted a list of about 2,000 persons involved in the Holocaust. The list has been forwarded to the government.

 

A total of about 195,000 Jews of Lithuania were massacred during the Nazi rule, with merely 5-10 percent of the pre-war population surviving until the end of the war.

 

Nazis have successfully involved a relatively large share of the Lithuanian administration and local residents into the Holocaust.

 





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