[ad_1]
Chona Leibovičius, Vitalijus Karakorskis, Dovydas Bluvšteinas, Leo Lev Milner ask the President to review the composition of the International Commission for the Evaluation of Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupational Regimes in Lithuania.
These members of the Jewish community are asking Seimas and the government to find a way to temporarily suspend the financing of the Goodwill Fund until there is a change in their leadership.
They urge the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania to assess in principle the attempts to review the history and destruction of monuments in the West, in the first place, as Juozas Lukša-Daumantas,
Considers that the text of the appeal is unfounded
Members of the Jewish community mentioned in their statement declare that “F. Kukliansky (Lithuania) and A. Baker (USA), Presidents of the Goodwill Foundation, indirectly accused the legendary partisan commander Juozas Lukšas-Daumantas of participating in the Holocaust without providing any evidence.
“We, a group of members of the Vilnius Jewish community, believe that such irresponsible behavior is unacceptable and disrupts civil society in our state.” Incidentally, this political statement is not in line with the goals and objectives of the Foundation as defined in its founding documents, “V. Karakorskis said in a statement posted on his Facebook profile.
According to the authors of the declaration, support for the Marxist denial and distortion of the undoubted facts of human history, which is now taking place in the West, especially in the United States, is expressed in the statement by F. Kukliansky and A. Baker.
“We recall that the forces that did so terrorized synagogues and kosher institutions, scorned memorials to WWII participants, Holocaust victims, and the world’s righteous, such as Raul Wallenberg in Los Angeles, and announced anti-Semitic slogans. against the state of Israel, “wrote members of the Jewish community.
They noted that “this is not the first attempt by F. Kukliansky to incite anti-Semitic and at the same time anti-Lithuanian sentiment in our country and abroad.”
“It is enough to recall his provocative decision to close the Lithuanian Jewish community and the Vilnius Choral Synagogue due to the alleged threat to the Litvaks.” Although no evidence of that threat was provided, as in the case of Lukša-Daumantas. F. Kukliansky’s statements about the allegedly disloyal Lithuanian Jewish community to the Lithuanian state or about the fact that “Jews hate Lithuanians more than Lithuanian Jews” were also generally anti-Semitic. F. Kukliansky’s list of similar provocations could continue, “the statement read.
Its authors noted that F. Kukliansky is the president of the Lithuanian Jewish community (Litvak), and A. Bakeris is a member of the International Commission for the Evaluation of Crimes under the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania.
“Their statement basically supports the Kremlin’s constant propaganda efforts to blacken Lithuanian anti-national and anti-Soviet resistance heroes, to discredit the activities of the organizations representing them,” the statement said.
He addressed the President of Las Seimas
As previously announced, on July 1, the presidents of the Goodwill Foundation F. Kukliansky and Rabbi A. Baker wrote an open letter to the President of the Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis, expressing concern at the decision of the Seimas to declare 2021 the year of J. Lukša-Daumantas.
The petitioners raise the question of whether a person belonging to the Lithuanian Activists Front (LAF) should be honored in this way.
The address to the President of Seimas says the following:
The LAF, founded in Berlin, was previously formed as a German ally operating in occupied Lithuania. It was an organization that did not hide its anti-Semitic orientation, and was proud of it, and many of its members were directly involved in the persecution and murder of Lithuanian Jews.
Despite anti-Soviet activities and the subsequent conflict with the Nazi government, the LAF’s declared vision of an independent Lithuania was an ethnically “pure” homeland with no place for Jewish citizens. Although there are doubts about the guilt of J. Lukša-Daumantas for war crimes and the claim that there are not enough documents to prove it, we believe that the Seimas should not have announced the year 2021 as J. Lukša-Daumantas. “
He taught that he was not seeking to accuse anyone.
The president of the Lithuanian Jewish community emphasized that in her letter they did not seek to accuse, but to raise problems, they saw nothing wrong here.
“We respect J. Lukšas-Daumantas, as well as all the supporters who fought for the independence of their state, Lithuania. However, I would like to point out that in 2004 it was issued by the International Commission for the Evaluation of Regime Crimes of Nazi and Soviet Occupation in Lithuania in Tritium. (…) The first volume reads about LAF as follows:
“LAF is a Lithuanian patriotic organization that sought to restore the country’s independence. However, the activities of the LAF were accompanied by dark shadows: the political union with Hitler’s Germany, the search for satellite status for Lithuania, the demonstrations of the Nazism in its ideology and fierce anti-Semitism (…) “. There are more posts about LAF. (…) We, the Jews of Lithuania, cannot say that all the LAF and all the people who participated in it are contaminated by the persecution of the Jews. However, in cases where a person is so honored that the entire year is declared a year of honor, they would like to know more about their activities in this ambiguous organization, “said F. Kukliansky.
It is strictly prohibited to use the information published by DELFI on other websites, in the media or elsewhere, or to distribute our material in any way without consent, and if consent has been obtained, DELFI must be cited as the source.
[ad_2]
