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Rūta Vanagaitė, one of Lithuania’s most popular public personalities and the successful author of numerous bestsellers, became persona non grata in her homeland after this book was originally published in Lithuania. She currently lives in Jerusalem. Efraim Zuroff is the chief Nazi hunter of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and director of the center's Israel Office and East European affairs. Five documentaries have been made about his work, including “The Search for Doctor Death,” (BBC 2009). A Holocaust historian, popular lecturer worldwide, and author, he lives in Jerusalem.
This is a painful and important book—painful because so much of it consists of excruciating eyewitness accounts to the torment inflicted on Lithuanian Jews by their fellow citizens, and important because so little has appeared in English on not only this terrible dimension of the Holocaust, but also the reluctance, even refusal, of the descendants of the killers to acknowledge their role in the murders all these years later. The account of the Lithuanian government’s vacillations in dealing with the nation’s past is particularly eye-opening. -- Peter Hayes, author of Why? Explaining the Holocaust Our People is an immensely valuable addition to our knowledge about the genocidal murder of Lithuanian Jews. The authors’ remarkable investigation has brought to light the active role played by Lithuanian citizens, often with minimal oversight by Nazi occupiers, at hundreds of killing sites. It will serve as a powerful wake-up call for grappling with the complicit legacy of World War II. -- Yehuda Bauer, Holocaust Historian, Academic Advisor, Yad Vashem
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