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Article: Jews, Lithuanians and the Holocaust
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- Canadian Slavonic Papers
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
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Alfonsas Eidintas. Jews, Lithuanians and the Holocaust. Vilnius: Versus Aureus, 2003. 534 pp. Photographs . Bibliography. Index.
Important changes in the interpretation of the Holocaust in Lithuania have only recently begun. Alfonsas Eidintas, a Lithuanian historian, points out that investigating this sensitive subject-the history of the Holocaust in Lithuania-was quite difficult, since the perpetrator was more often than not Lithuanian (p. 13) and, furthermore, disagreement regarding this fact still exists there. Eidintas acknowledges that the role of the "shooter is not something that we, Lithuanians like to talk about, although we all understand and know just how dirty a job was done by ...