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A famous Nazi hunter and a descendent of Nazi collaborators team up on a journey to uncover Lithuania's Holocaust secrets.
This remarkable book traces the quest for the truth about the Holocaust in Lithuania by two ostensible enemies: Ruta a descendant of the perpetrators, Efraim a descendant of the victims. Ruta Vanagaite, a successful Lithuanian writer, was motivated by her recent discoveries that some of her relatives had played a role in the mass murder of Jews and that Lithuanian officials had tried to hide the complicity of local collaborators. Efraim Zuroff, a noted Israeli Nazi hunter, had both professional and personal motivations. He had worked for years to bring Lithuanian war criminals to justice and to compel local authorities to tell the truth about the Holocaust in their country. The facts that his maternal grandparents were born in Lithuania and that he was named for a great-uncle who was murdered with his family in Vilnius with the active help of Lithuanians made his search personal as well.
Our People exposes the significant role in implementing the Final Solution played by local political leaders and the prewar Lithuanian administration that remained in place during the Nazi occupation. It also tackles the sensitive issue of the motivation of thousands of ordinary Lithuanians who were complicit in the murder of their Jewish neighbors. At the heart of the book, these are the issues that Ruta and Efraim discuss, debate, and analyze as they crisscross the country to visit dozens of Holocaust mass murder sites in Lithuania and neighboring Belarus. This book follows them on their remarkable journey as they search for neglected graves, interview eyewitnesses, and uncover hints of the rich life that had existed in hundreds of Jewish communities throughout Lithuania.
Contents
Preface
Introduction: Efraim Zuroff: Lithuania and the Holocaust
Part I: Before the Journey
1 Efraim Zuroff: My Connection to Lithuania
2 Ruta Vanagaite: My Connection to the Holocaust
3 Meeting the Enemy
Part II: Preparation for the Journey
4 Lithuania, 1941: Getting Rid of the Jews
5 Lithuania Today: Minimizing the Crimes
6 Mission Impossible?
Part III: Journey with the Enemy: Thirteen Destinations
7 Kaunas/Kovno
8 Linkmenys/Ligmiyan
9 Švencionys/Shventzyan
10 Kavarskas/Kovarsk
11 Ukmerge/Vilkomir
12 Šeduva/Shadeve
13 Telšiai/Telz
14 Plunge/Plungyan
15 Plateliai/Plotel
16 Taurage/Tavrig
17 Butrimonys/Butrimants
18 Panevežys/Ponevezh
19 Belarus
Part IV: The Hell of Vilnius/Vilna
20 Portraits of the Witnesses
21 Portrait of a Student
22 Portrait of a Postman
23 Dreams of a Killer
24 Portraits of the Victims
25 Portrait of a Corpse-Burner
26 The Fates of the Killers
27 The Last Day
Part V: Conclusion
28 Human Faces of the Murderers
29 Lithuania Got Richer
30 The Farewell
Afterword: Ruta Vanagaite: Lithuania Is Angry, Lithuania Is Sad
Index
