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The below comment is of Dovid Katz, professor of Yiddish at Vilnius University (1999-2010), editor of DefendingHistory.com, author of Lithuanian Jewish Culture “Long before it was trendy, Joseph...
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„Within half a year of the beginning of the Nazi occupation, the Jewish inhabitants of Lithuania were annihilated. About 35 thousand remained in the ghettos of Vilnius, Kaunas and Šiauliai, where they...
View ArticleA DECREE ON THE COLLECTION OF DOCUMENTARY MATERIAL ABOUT THE ACTIVITIES OF...
A Directive from the Minister of Internal Affairs to the Heads of Districts and Towns, to District Boards and Town Mayors About the Collection of Material About the Activities of the Partisans Kaunas,...
View ArticleAPPEALS DISTRIBUTED IN LITHUANIA BEFORE JUNE 22, 1941
Read and Pass On AWAY WITH THE JEWS […] After centuries of slavery, OUR FELLOW LITHUANIAN, join the struggle for freedom. The hour of reckoning has come. Someone is on our side. Let us wreak...
View ArticleTHE LAF AND THE FIRST ACTS OF THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT
Information about how the government institutions of the Nazi occupation in Lithuania – district commissars, the Security Police and Security Service, the offices of the military commandants –...
View ArticleIntroduction to the first part of the Lithuanian edition
We often hear complaints that the Holocaust is being mentioned too much and too often, that the subject of the Jewish Catastrophe is simply being forced on educational and public institutions and on...
View ArticleIntroduction to the second part of Lithuanian edition
For people who follow historical literature at least to some extent, publications in Lithuanian about the Holocaust (Shoah) are no longer a novelty. Since the restoration of independence, there has...
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Over half a century has passed since the Nazi occupation, which was so horrendous to the Jews of Lithuania. Because of Soviet policy in regard to the Jews, however, the generation that grew up in...
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Contributions
Joseph Levinson contributed extensively to: Revival of Lithuania’s Jewish Community (LJC)’ – was for many years an active LJC Board member . Discovering and marking mass graves of Lithuanian Jews...
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Welcome to JosephLevinson.com!
Welcome to the website www.josephlevinson.com! This website was created with the purpose to save the work of my father, Joseph Levinson, in preserving the memory of the Lithuanian Jews who perished...
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