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“It should be recalled that the government led then by Prime Minister Juozas Ambrazevicius decided in June 1941 to create in Nazi occupied Lithuania the first concentration camp especially for Jews,” the European Jewish ¨Parliament said in a statement.
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BRUSSELS---The European Jewish Parliament “strongly” condemned the decision of the Lithuanian authorities to rebury former Nazi collaborator Juozas Ambrazevicius in the city of Kaunas..
“It should be recalled that the government led then by Prime Minister Juozas Ambrazevicius decided in June 1941 to create in Nazi occupied Lithuania the first concentration camp especially for Jews,” the parliament said in a statement.
As a result of the criminal acts which took place in Lithuania till 1944 over 200,000 Jews were brutally murdered. Ambrazevicius was personally responsible for their murder.
“The EJP deplores that the current Lithuanian government not only allowed the reburial in Kaunas but financially supported it.”
The parliament expressed “deep concern” about rising revisionism in Europe and welcomed the “strong reaction” of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It called on Lithuanian and other European leaders to condemn the ceremony of transfer and reburial of Juozas Ambrazevicius “which tarnishes the memory of Holocaust victims.”
“The European Jewish Parliament’s Fighting Anti-Semitism Committee, headed by co-chairmen Raymond Briefel and Eduard Dolinsky, is determined to take action to confront the growing and worrying attempts to revitalize Nazism in Europe,” the statement said.