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How a Chicago teacher sparked a 'memory war,' forcing Lithuania to confront its Nazi past

How a Chicago teacher sparked a memory war, forcing Lithuania to confront its Nazi past Gil Skorwid and Patrick Smith © Provided by NBC News VILNIUS, Lithuania As her mother lay dying, Silvia Foti made a promise. She vowed to continue her plans to write a book about her mother s father, Foti s grandfather, a Lithuanian hero known as General Storm. He was among the young soldiers who fought the Soviet Union in its brief but brutal first occupation of Lithuania in 1940, and he was later shot in a KGB prison. He, like many of his comrades, is considered a national hero.

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80 years | Grant Arthur Gochin

80 years | Grant Arthur Gochin
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Irena Veisaite, 92, Holocaust survivor turned human rights advocate

Irena Veisaite, 92, Holocaust survivor turned human rights advocate Irena Veisaite died of COVID-19 on Dec. 11, 2020. (Krzysztof Czyzewski/Borderland Foundation) Advertisement (JTA) Even in the most challenging circumstances, Irena Veisaite never missed a chance to foster tolerance and understanding. One of the few Jews to survive the Holocaust in Lithuania, Veisaite’s passion for reconciliation helped defuse a tense moment during an exchange between Poles and Lithuanians at the White Synagogue in Sejny, a Polish town on the border between the two countries that share a long history scarred by tragedy. In the early 1990s, a group of Poles and Lithuanians gathered at the synagogue for a dialogue organized by the Borderland Foundation, a Sejny-based nonprofit that works to promote intercultural understanding. When a young Polish man lashed out against Lithuanians, Veisaite successfully appealed to the Lithuanians not to walk out. By the end of the heated, two-hour

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Vilnius to build monument for people who saved Jews during war – photos

Vilnius to build monument for people who saved Jews during war – photos 242 LRT.lt2020.12.18 12:14 VIlnius to build monument for people who saved Jews during war / Vilnius City Municipality/LRT.lt photocollage Vilnius has received 14 proposals in an open tender to build a monument for people who saved Jews in Lithuania during the Second World War, according to a press release by the municipality. The monument will be built in a public space near Onos Šimaitės Street, where a memorial stone was previously placed by the Lithuanian Jewish Community (LŽB). Lithuania has dedicated the year 2020 to the Vilna Gaon and the History of Lithuania’s Jews, which coincides with the commissioning of the monument.

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