Cover Osteuropa English Articles/2015

In Web Special

Overcoming war
Jan Bloch: Entrepreneur, publicist, pacifist

Vytautas Toleikis

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Abstract

Important centres of eastern European Jewish life used to be lo-cated on the territory of modern Lithuania. Almost all Jews living there were murdered by the Nazis and their Lithuanian accomplices. In the Soviet Union, commemoration of the Jews and the preservation of their heritage were taboo. This changed with Lithuanian independence. However, the acceptance of co-responsibility for the murder of Lithua-nia's Jews has met with resistance within the political world. Neverthe-less, the place of Lithuanian Jewish heritage is increasingly secure in the view of history now found in society at large and among young people in particular.

(Web Special, pp. 1–7)

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