The strained relations existing between the Lithuanians and the survivors who had hoped in vain that Lithuanas behaviour would give good reason to change for the better.
“An Outrage” by Professor Golan 2004
In this short article, Prof. Golan, a senior professor at Haifa University and a member of the Administration of the Association of the Lithuanian Jews in Israel, expresses his feeling regarding the contemptible and inhumane treatment of the Lithuanian authorities toward Jews in general and particularly to Holocaust survivors.In spite of the Lithuanian participation in the murder of Lithuanian Jews, after they got independence, the government and the nation did not atone for their actions and did not try to compensate or at least make life easier for their victims. They enacted prejudicial laws in order to hurt those who were left alive. Professor Golan turns to the conscience of the world and asks them not to hug this country to their bosom until they have paid their debt to the Holocaust survivors.
“No to Lithuania!!!" by Professor Kolitz 2004
In an article written in 1997 the late Prof. Tzvi Kolitz attacks a senior professor at New York’s Yeshiva University and calls Lithuania, “an ostracized land” because of its many crimes against humanity. Prof. Kolitz calls to the nations of the world not to associate with Lithuania and not to accept the country into international organizations because of the despicable deeds predicated by the people of this nation with overwhelming enthusiasm in particular the Lithuanian intelligentsia.
“Can Lithuania face its Holocaust past”, Zuroff 2004
Dr. Efraim Zuroff, the writer, explains why thousands of Jews, especially Holocaust survivors, boycotted the Congress in Vilnius. The Lithuanians did not do anything to fulfill their duty as a free country. They did not bring to court or punish even one murderer of Jews during the Second World War.The Lithuanians did not fulfill the agreement in which they promised to supply information to the Israeli Lithuanian Committee, which was created in order to check the immunity given to the murderers of Jews. It’s no wonder that Holocaust survivors do not believe the Lithuanians.
“The Last Jewish Victim” by Professor Levin 2004
Professor Levin of the Hebrew University claims that the execution of the Georgian Jew Dekanidze in Vilnius was just the murder of another Jew and that being Jewish was the crime for which he was executed. He ponders if Dekanidze was the last Jewish victim in Lithuania.
”The New Lithuania” by Dr. H. Gill, 2004
In this article, Dr. Gill, a specialist on the relationship between Lithuanian Jewry and gentile Lithuanians, points out the hypocrisy of the Lithuanians towards the Jews. They clasp them to their bosom when they need to use them and then hate them overwhelmingly when their services are no longer needed. This happened in 1918-1920 when the Lithuanian country was created and repeated itself in 1989-1990 when they got their independence again.
A Travesty of Justice - by J.Melamed, 2004
The writer asserts that the Fascist Movement created in Berlin (the LAF) which participated in the murder of Lithuanian Jews are the same people behind the creation of the Lithuanian citizenship law created to prevent Jewish survivors of the Holocaust regaining their citizenship rights and property stolen by the Lithuanians.
“Lithuanian War Crimes” from the Jerusalem Post 2004
The Jerusalem Post newspaper editor describes the anti-Semitic approach of the Lithuanians even after they murdered the majority of Lithuanian Jews. He related to their response to Chairman of the Israeli Knesset Reuven Rivlin when he told the Lithuanians in blunt terms about their past. The Lithuanians hypocritically claimed they were “insulted” by these facts. The editor of the “Lithuania, Crime and Punishment” Bulletin, H. Melamed, supported this article.