Photo: Jewish mass murder site and mass grave, Utena, Lithuania, 1944

by Liutauras Ulevičius

Is Lithuania ready today, almost 30 years after the restoration of independence, to investigate and try the people who murdered 4,609 Lithuanian citizens over three days in 1941? No. We will soon mark the 78th anniversary of that mass murder, but the independent democratic republic is unable to find the resources or the will to begin investigating, naming and prosecuting its own citizens, its own murderers.

Aren’t we all continuing and contributing to the commission of the crimes of the Holocaust of that time through our inaction?

Full text in Lithuanian here.