JTA – Dec 30, 2023
Lithuania’s parliament passed a law this week to set aside over 37 million euros ($38 million) as restitution for Holocaust survivors and their heirs.
Ingrida Šimonytė, Lithuania’s prime minister, introduced the bill in the Seimas, Lithuania’s national legislature in Vilnius, on Nov. 15, proposing to nearly double the money the government had already set aside for restitution claims in a country where 90% of its Jews were killed in the Holocaust. Today only 5,000 Jews remain in the country.
The World Jewish Restitution Organization called it “an important step to providing a measure of justice to Lithuanian Holocaust survivors and their families for the horrors they suffered during World War II and its aftermath.”
The bill passed last week with an overwhelming majority, with 72 parliamentarians in favor, six against and two abstaining.
“No one can bring the lost lives back and revive the communities once we had. However, the approach the government shows in terms of restitution for the Lithuanian Jewish community devastated during the Holocaust is proper and is welcomed by our community,” said Fania Kukliansky, president of the Lithuanian Jewish Community, according to the Baltic News Network.
Over a decade ago, the parliament passed legislation to allocate 36 million euros, then worth about $72 million, for a “Good Will Foundation” that funds projects to benefit the country’s Jewish population. The money was considered restitution for communal property seized from Lithuania’s Jewish community under the Nazi occupation.
The present bill would allow survivors and their heirs to apply for restitution for personal property as well, while continuing to fund the Good Will Foundation.
“This is also a moral debt that should be acknowledged and, as far as possible, not 100%, resolved,” Šimonytė said.
Lithuania has a checkered history when it comes to Holocaust remembrance. The Nazi’s Lithuanian collaborators under German occupation were involved in many atrocities, including the massacres at Paneriai, a present-day suburb of Vilnius, where 70,000 Jews were killed between 1941 and 1944. Lithuanian battalions performed guard duty and organized deportations at the Majdanek death camp in Poland and the Warsaw Ghetto.
Jewish leaders objected when, in 2020, Lithuanian lawmakers considered a law that would have declared that neither Lithuania nor its leaders could be blamed for participating in the Holocaust because the country was occupied. Amid the rise in nationalism across Eastern Europe, streets, schools and monuments have been named for Lithuanian collaborators.
Despite the overwhelming vote in the Seimas, not everyone supported the bill.
“Our faction did not support it. We believe that the issue is resolved. Neither the motives nor the real reasons for it are understood,” said former Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, who is now chairman of the Democratic Union For Lithuania Party and voted against the bill.
“If we’d apply the same approach, then the story of compensation would be endless” he added, pointing to non-Jewish Lithuanians who lost property during both the Nazi and Soviet occupations.
“If every government starts believing it has an exclusive right to pass decisions on restitution, then, to follow the logic, every new government can start thinking that it has a right to compensate also all the Lithuanian nationals who lost their property in the 1940s and who haven’t seen any compensation,” Skvernelis said.
The bill’s passage was welcomed by the United States embassy in Lithuania.
“The passing of this legislation is an important step in recognizing the tragedy of the Holocaust in Lithuania,” Robert Gilchrist, the U.S. ambassador to Lithuania, said in a statement. “The United States Government strongly welcomes and endorses the Lithuanian government’s proposal to address longstanding issues of restitution for the Lithuanian Jewish community devastated during the Holocaust.”
So far I’ve said little about these “reparations”
But it;s veering into extortion, and they are also hitting nations and people who really can’t afford any of this.
How much responsibility has anyone now living in Lithuania to a dead regime they had nothing to do with creating? Or for deeds done 8 decades ago in a war they did not start?
Holocaust reparations are becoming a crime against humanity — please start to understand that.
“Ingrida Simonyeti” is jewish….phew! Wot a complete surprise……NOT.
So 40 million for events occuring 80 odd years ago….greatly exaggerated of course.
So the jews are back in the driving seat in this country…..remember there will be millions more extracted from Lithuania via various scams and illegal activities.
So it looks like Israel needs the money to fund some project etc.Perhaps to buy a new shipment of white phosphorus to burn alive anti semitic Palestinians??.
I have just received one of those threatening You Tube messages….my free speech seems to have got them aggravated.
They were “interfering ” with criticism of those dreadful oiks the Beckheims which the Daily Mail insists on mentioning…
You Tube is ACTIVELY interfering with comments THEY (meaning jews) dont approve of.Basically back to the good old days pre internet.
It would be great if Americans started to exercise their right to free speech backed up by their right to own weapons.
What an unbelievable period of history; a massive war in which apparently only the Jews suffered…
Lying, thieving scum such as Ingrida Šimonytė and Fania Kukliansky should have their tongues ripped out and stuffed up each others’ a**holes.
Lithuanusia should use that money to money the remaining 5,000 Jews to Israel.
we all had enough of the countless holocaust stories true or false
The STATE does not have any money. It can only give to person A what it steals from persons B, C, D etcetera…Stealing from the currently alive Lithuanians who have zero guilt for what happened 80 years ago is immoral.
Not necessary that Lithuania Citizen spent 40’Millions.
78 years have passed since the end of war.
And there is plenty of money around in Jewish Hands.
Some Background on Corporations
A great many of the world’s largest corporations are owned and controlled by Jews, many of these by the select few in the City of London, but also very many outside this small group. The world’s major oil companies are controlled by Jewish interests, as are the major pharmaceutical companies, many of the weapons manufacturers and the world’s airlines, a preponderant amount of the world’s shipping capacity, and many other industries that might not normally come to mind. It is impossible to obtain access to all the information required to even hazard a guess at the value of the corporate asset ownership of these people, but consider that virtually all of the media in the West, and a great deal of the prime media outlets in the rest of the world, including movies and book publishing, are owned or controlled by Jews. There are international companies worth in total many trillions of dollars that are entirely Jewish; Nestle, Sanofi, Monsanto, being a few among hundreds such. We cannot easily know what part of this reverts to our handful of Jewish bankers in the City of London, how much of that was financed by, and is controlled from, that center, but it isn’t negligible.
READ MORE : https://www.unz.com/lromanoff/the-richest-man-in-the-world/
Lithuania was long been billed ‘a guilty country’. It welcomed the German occupation, and it turned on its bolshevik overlords (Jews, of course) who had brutalised them since 1940. And oh dear or dear, the Lithuanians are nationalists! Unforgivable evil! They will be paying compensation forever, now that their economy is the strongest among the Nordics, and stonger than most Eastern European countries’.
The Hoax of the 20th Century by Arthur Butz.
Holocaustianity has become a religion and Anne Franke is the new Saint.
Our Friends are the last people who should be running the world. Their insanity makes them unfit to run a shoe shine stand
At this time after many years of Holocaust reparations…..excuse me the Holocaust Industry never stops…….always looking in every corner for Holocaust perpetrators…which in some cases do not exist or are no longer alive. It has become a money making racket……..and many people are seeing it for what it really is but are afraid to speak out.
I have always believed there have been several civilizations. Each went insane and destroyed themselves. The proof I needed is the world situation today. Totally insane. There is little time left.
Next guilty Goyim are Eskimos…
Pay reparations with whale blubber and seals skins….
Lousy anti- semites
Lithuania was part of the Pale of Settlement, where Jews were allowed to be, so it is something of a Jewish shit-hole. Earlier, it was the last place in Europe to go Christian(1300s), again probably because of the Jewish presence, in part