On May 24, 10:24 am, The Revd <peel...@degenerate.Grik> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 May 2012 10:15:54 -0700 (PDT), Michael Ejercito
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> >On May 24, 9:51 am, The Revd <peel...@degenerate.Grik> wrote:
> >> On Thu, 24 May 2012 06:32:58 -0700 (PDT), Michael Ejercito
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> >> > The following article explains how a Holocaust happened.
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> >> Since it never happened, there's no point trying to explain it, gook.
> > The Holocaust happened.
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> No such thing EVER happened, gook. It's just another jew lie you've
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It DID happen, nithing.
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> >> >How does a Holocaust happen?
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> >> >by Jeff Jacoby
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> >> Sadly, Jeff Jakobstein was not 'holocausted'®™.
> > You holocausted your honor, decency, and integrity.
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> You never had any honour, decency or integrity to 'holocaust'®™, gook.
I have more than you do, boy.
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> > The following article is about how the Holocaust affected one
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> LOL!!! Yes, they got reparations for something that never
> happened!!!!!
It did happen, and they deserve the reparations.
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> >The day the Nazis came for my father's family
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> >by Jeff Jacoby
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> It's a pity they never came for Jeff Jakobstein.
The following article is about seeking justice for the crimes of
the past.
Seeking justice for crimes of the past
by Jeff Jacoby
The Boston Globe
September 27, 1994
http://www.jeffjacoby.com/3042/seeking-justice-for-crimes-of-the-past
LAST WEDNESDAY, exactly one year from the day that John (Ivan)
Demjanjuk was released from an Israeli prison and allowed to return to
the United States, the Justice Department moved to revoke the
citizenship of Aleksandras Lileikis, an elderly Lithuanian immigrant
who lives in Norwood, Mass. Perhaps the timing was a hint that the
government will not let the outcome of the Demjanjuk case -- in which
an indisputably guilty war criminal was set free on a technicality --
derail its efforts to root out Nazi collaborators living in America.
Like Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian, Lileikis is charged with having been one
of the legion of East Europeans who willingly joined the Nazis in
effecting the Final Solution, then immigrated to the United States
under fraudulent pretenses. Unlike Demjanjuk, an ignorant peasant
trained by the Nazis to kill Jews at the Sobibor and Treblinka death
camps, Lileikis was an officer and an intellectual, with power and
prestige and scores of men at his command. The Demjanjuk prosecution
turned on the testimony of aging eyewitnesses and evidence supplied by
the KGB, but the case against the Lithuanian rests on a solid paper
trail, with every damning document is signed by Lileikis himself.
A university graduate who earned a law degree and speaks several
languages, Lileikis made his mark in the Lithuanian secret police --
the "Saugumas." By 1939, he was chief of the Saugumas in Vilna,
Lithuania's largest city. When the Soviet Union occupied the Baltic
States in 1940, Lileikis ran away to Nazi Germany. He returned to his
homeland after Germany invaded Lithuania in June of 1941, and was
reinstalled by the Nazis in his former position.
The Saugumas was a major component of the Nazi killing operation in
Lithuania, which began immediately following the invasion. The Germans
relied on Lileikis and his officers to round up Jews and transport
them to the Ponary Woods, a forest about six miles outside Vilna.
There, they were stripped, robbed of their belongings, lined up 10 or
20 at a time at the edge of deep pits, and shot.
Jewish victims of mass murder in the Ponary Woods near Vilna,
Lithuania
The killing was done by death squads called "Einsatzgruppen." The term
is German. But the killers at the Ponary pits were largely Lithuanian.
For Lithuanians had welcomed the Nazi invasion, greeting the Germans
with flowers and cheers. Many Lithuanians (like many Poles, Latvians,
and Ukrainians) were anti-Semitic to the core, only too glad to
participate in killing their Jewish neighbors. With the collaboration
of the Saugumas and the Lithuanians who volunteered to commit mass
murder at places like Ponary, the Nazis, in just three years, were
able to exterminate 96 percent of Lithuanian Jewry.
Before the war, Vilna was a vibrant center of Jewish learning,
culture, and literature, so renowned that it was nicknamed "the
Jerusalem of Lithuania." Some 80,000 Jews lived in Vilna when the
Nazis entered. By the time they departed, the Jerusalem of Lithuania
was virtually Jew-free.
History books and Nazi records are replete with statistics: 5,000
Vilna Jews massacred at Ponary in the first 12 days of the German
occupation; 35,000 in the first two months; 48,000 by the end of 1941.
Dr. Jacob Wigodsky was one of these statistics. A former member of the
Polish Senate, a longtime leader of Vilna's Jewish community, he was
arrested by the Saugumas, presumably at Lileikis' command, and shot at
Ponary on Aug. 31, 1941. He was 86 years old, killed for the crime of
being a Jew. Lileikis is 87.
Abba Kovner, a Vilna resident who survived the war, described two more
of these statistics at the Eichmann trial in 1961:
"At midnight, I saw from the other side of the street, it was 39
Ostrashun Street, a woman was dragged by the hair by two soldiers -- a
woman who was holding something in her arms. One of them directed a
beam of light into her face; the other one dragged her by her hair and
threw her on the pavement.
"Then the infant fell out of her arms. One of the two, the one with
the flashlight, I believe, took the infant, raised him into the air,
grabbed him by the leg. The woman crawled on the earth, took hold of
his boot, and pleaded for mercy. But the soldier took the boy and hit
him with his head against the wall -- once, twice, smashed him against
the wall."
On Aug. 31, 1941, alone, according to the Nazis' meticulous
bookkeeping, precisely 2,019 Jewish women, 864 men, and 817 children
were shot at Ponary.
It is difficult, 50 years on, to see faces or recall names in these
statistics. Far easier to see Lileikis' face -- to see the extremely
old man he has become, with little left in this world but his thick
glasses, his ailing wife, and his dilapidated house on Sumner Street.
Why pursue him? Why dig up papers he signed long ago -- citing musty
statistics, disturbing his peace - when the end of his life is so
near?
Why? Because a man remains accountable for his life even at the end of
his life. Because civilization depends on reinforcing the idea of
justice, even when justice itself can no longer be meted out. Because
only by keeping open the window of memory can we protect ourselves
against the hells of our past.
If the Justice Department is correct, the man who helped turn
thousands of men, women, and children into statistics entered the
United States in 1955 and became an American citizen in 1976. The
crimes he abetted in Vilna cannot be undone. But his presence in this
country is one abomination that can still be reversed.