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Calls to Lithuania to Halt Excavation and Desecration of WWII Mass Graves
The plea of Rabbi Burshtein, the respected Chief Rabbi of Lithuania , created an outcry worldwide. Rabbinic Organizations and famous institutions – including the Central Rabbinical Congress of USA and Canada - contacted the Lithuanian authorities to halt the desecration of this holy site, in accordance with the ruling of the country's leading Rabbi.
Asra Kadisha - the organization that is active to protect Jewish cemeteries worldwide and is currently fighting to stop the renovation of a sports palace in the Snipisek Jewish cemetery – contacted US authorities to intervene to preserve the mass graves. "Unfortunately, there is a total disconnect between the words and deeds of Lithuanian authorities. At a time when they are forming commissions and organizing conferences to preserve the Jewish heritage, the opposite is happening on the ground. We appeal to the Lithuanian authorities to fulfill their various commitments to honor and fully preserve the little that was left from the once-glorious Vilnius and Lithuanian Jewry, their cemeteries and rest-places," said Rabbi Lazar Stern, NY Chairman of Asra Kadisha .
"We call upon Lithuanian descendants and world-Jewry to contact the Lithuanian Embassies in their respective countries and the Lithuanian government to ask them to fully preserve the Jewish rest-places in their country – including the mass grave in Siauliai, and cancel plans to renovate and reestablish an entertainment center in the Snipisek Jewish cemetery," Rabbi Stern concluded.
Contact: Rabbi Lazar Stern
845-783-9626
akmelech@gmail.com