JCL is also “astonished and disturbed” by announcements by the spokesperson of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, as if Jews and other ethnic minorities of Lithuania are suffering here in Lithuania from “serious discrimination” etc. “Lithuania is a democratic country that respects its Jewish citizens and treats all its citizens equally.Continue Reading

A view of Auschwitz II-Birkenau, a German Nazi concentration and extermination camp

Since 1996, survivors of the Nazi regime and world leaders have been invited to address the German Bundestag each year on January 27 to commemorate the Holocaust. Often, they focus on contemporary issues. Genocide: Is this the appropriate word to describe the systematic annihilation of 6 million Jews between 1939 and 1945?Continue Reading