Film screening followed by the discussion Why is it still difficult to speak about the Holocaust in Lithuania?
Participants:
Prof Antony Polonsky
Prof Šarūnas Liekis
Prof Saulius Sužiedėlis
Prof Motti Zalkin
Dr Christoph Dieckmann
Dr Darius Staliūnas

In 1992, a Lithuanian mayor and a woodcarver born after the Holocaust, both non-Jewish, erected three memorial wooden statues near the site where 2,200 Jews were murdered, many being buried while still half-alive by the Nazis and their local collaborators in August 1941. In the winter of 2004, the statues were burned down. The perpetrators of the crime have yet to be discovered by the Lithuanian police. The film is the last evidence of the memorial.
Israel, 2005. Directed by: Dov Shinar, Motti Zalkin. Duration: 12'. Language: English