Lay of the Land Weekly Newsletter- 01 November 2022

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Articles

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LITHUANIANS STILL DENY PARTICIPATION IN THE HOLOCAUST

By Dr. Efraim Zuroff

Familiar Faces. Lithuanian militiamen not German Nazi’s, round up Jewish women in Kovno, Lithuania in June 1941.

While many would believe that Lithuania “is doing an excellent job of commemorating the destruction of its Jewish community” the world’s top Nazi hunter today warns that “nothing could be further from the truth” and cautions not to allow the Baltic country “to whitewash their complicity in the murder of over 95% of its Jews.”

LITHUANIANS STILL DENY PARTICIPATION IN THE HOLOCAUST

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JEWISH PRIDE DEFIES THIS ANCIENT HATRED

By Alex Ryvchin

Selling Hate. Contributing to antisemitism today in Australia, Nazi memorabilia found for sale in New South Wales.

Fast forward from the writer’s youth in Sydney, Australia, where a neighbour would bellow night after night from his balcony “Hitler didn’t finish the job; I will finish it for him” to October 2022 with his 2-year-old daughter exposed to a large swastika scrawled on her childcare centre, the writer delves into the world’s oldest hatred.

JEWISH PRIDE DEFIES THIS ANCIENT HATRED

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THE OCTOBER I DIDN’T GET MARRIED

By Jonathan Feldstein

Battle of the Bride. The author (l) with Kate (m) and her father Victor (r) in 1985, the day he proposed marriage

In light of today’s uncertain future for Jews in Russia, the writer reflects back to 1985 when as an American citizen, he proposed to a Jewish refusenik to help get her and her family out of the Soviet Union that was persecuting its Jews. With letters and calls monitored by the KGB, read this riveting account of “my little battle” seeking the freedom “of at least one family.”

THE OCTOBER I DIDN’T GET MARRIED

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