Israeli Holocaust historian a war crimes suspect

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very strange position of Israeli state ... Lithuanian prosecutors want to investigate war - crimes commited by a NKVD thug, this story has had nothing with the Jews , non Jews , Christians , etc. Would Israel cover Blokhin´s war crimes as well (if he were a Israeli citizen ) ?
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VILNIUS - Lithuanian prosecutors have sparked international controversy by asking Israel to deliver a notice of suspicion to Yitzhak Arad, a prominent historian and member of the International Commission for Evaluation of Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regime Crimes in Lithuania. In a surprising twist, Lithuania suspects the 81-year-old Israeli citizen of himself committing crimes against humanity during and after World War II.
The Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Department has officially confirmed that in June it sent a request to Israel's Justice Ministry to notify Arad that he is suspected of murdering local civilians, prisoners of war and members of guerrilla movements while serving in the NKVD, the Soviet Union's predecessor to the KGB. The notice amounts to a request to appear for questioning, and is not a formal accusation.
Lithuania's chief prosecutor said he won't request that the court arrest Arad if he returns to Lithuania and testifies.

"He has the possibility to answer questions voluntarily, and the chief prosecutor isn't thinking of imposing any constraints on him yet," Prosecutor General's Office spokeswoman Aurelija Juodyte told The Baltic Times.
"Mr. Arad is a respectable person, and hopefully this status will continue," she said. "We [at the Prosecutor General's Depart-ment] aren't imposing an arrest."
The suspicions are based on quotes from Arad's autobiography, testimony he gave during the trials of Nazi war criminals, and documents from the Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Center. A pre-trial investigation into the case began in May 2006.

Arad is best known for serving as the director of Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Authority, for 21 years. Later Yad Vashem appointed him a member of the International Commission for Evaluation of Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regime Crimes in Lithuania. BNS reports that after learning the suspicions Lithuania has towards him, Arad suspended his membership in the commission.
The online version of Israel's Haaretz daily reported Arad has rejected the allegations.

He said he has been targeted by right-wing leaders in Lithuania for his recent statements on the issue of Lithuanians killing local Jews during WWII. He told Haaretz the affidavits he gave in the trials of Lithuanian Gestapo officials Aleksandras Lileikis and Algimantas Dailide angered political elements in Vilnius.


Head of the Simon Weisenthal Center in Israel, Ephraim Zuroff, said it's the first time that a foreign government has investigated an Israeli citizen for alleged crimes in the Soviet regime.

Its executive director, Ronaldas Racinskas, told The Baltic Times he hopes the allegations won't destroy their partnership with Yad Vashem.
"We hope this incident doesn't make a big influence on practical cooperation in the process of establishing historical truths," said Racinskas. "I don't see why this cooperation or participation should be stopped," said Racinskas.

"We need some time to find out what the situation really is. I hope that we'll solve this situation in a diplomatic way, and we will continue to cooperate in the future," he added.

Arad is a retired Israeli Defense Force brigadier general. After Germany invaded Lithuania in 1941, he joined a Soviet partisan platoon. He later served in the NKVD. After the war, he fled to Israel and joined the army. He has also served as an expert witness for the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations.
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Many Baltic Jews supported the USSR after it conquered the Baltic States in 1939. They were considered traitors by non-Jew citizens in Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia. So, when the Germans took control in 1940, the traitors were gladly exposed and turned over to the Germans.
 
War is a bloody mess. People do things that they are not proud of from time to time, but were nonetheless necessary at the time.

Let he who is without sin and been there throw the first stone.
 
It is somewhat strange they decided to summon a man who is 81 years old just for 'conversation'. What have they been doing for 30 years?
 
Many Baltic Jews supported the USSR after it conquered the Baltic States in 1939. They were considered traitors by non-Jew citizens in Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia. So, when the Germans took control in 1940, the traitors were gladly exposed and turned over to the Germans.
the same situation was in Belarus, Ukraine, Poland in NKVD the Jews were over-represented , specially in 20-30s . another thing that many of them did not see thamslevs as the Jews. much like Koba who did not see himself as a Georgian.

question. why do you think Israel does not want to cooperate with the Lithuanian persecutors?
 
It is somewhat strange they decided to summon a man who is 81 years old just for 'conversation'. What have they been doing for 30 years?
they have been sitting silently under carpent like mouses , all Baltic states were afraid of Moscow reaction . do you remember Kononov case?
Vassili Kononov - Wikipedia
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Vassili Makarovich Kononov or Vasiliy Makarovich Kononov was a Soviet partisan during World War II, who was convicted by Latvian supreme court as a war ...


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War is a bloody mess. People do things that they are not proud of from time to time, but were nonetheless necessary at the time.

Let he who is without sin and been there throw the first stone.

this is a specific of war crime prosecution which has no period of limitation for such crimes
War crime - Wikipedia

War Crimes - TRIAL International
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These crimes car be carried out against combatants as well as innocent civilians. Not all violations committed during war are legally considered war crimes.
 
It is somewhat strange they decided to summon a man who is 81 years old just for 'conversation'. What have they been doing for 30 years?
they have been sitting silently under carpent like mouses , all Baltic states were afraid of Moscow reaction . do you remember Kononov case?
Vassili Kononov - Wikipedia
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Vassili Makarovich Kononov or Vasiliy Makarovich Kononov was a Soviet partisan during World War II, who was convicted by Latvian supreme court as a war ...


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No, I didnt remember. I read about it in the Wiki.
 
Many Baltic Jews supported the USSR after it conquered the Baltic States in 1939. They were considered traitors by non-Jew citizens in Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia. So, when the Germans took control in 1940, the traitors were gladly exposed and turned over to the Germans.
the same situation was in Belarus, Ukraine, Poland in NKVD the Jews were over-represented , specially in 20-30s . another thing that many of them did not see thamslevs as the Jews. much like Koba who did not see himself as a Georgian.

question. why do you think Israel does not want to cooperate with the Lithuanian persecutors?
Poland didnt have any NKVD in the inter-war period. They had their national state and nationalistic governnent.
 
Many Baltic Jews supported the USSR after it conquered the Baltic States in 1939. They were considered traitors by non-Jew citizens in Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia. So, when the Germans took control in 1940, the traitors were gladly exposed and turned over to the Germans.
the same situation was in Belarus, Ukraine, Poland in NKVD the Jews were over-represented , specially in 20-30s . another thing that many of them did not see thamslevs as the Jews. much like Koba who did not see himself as a Georgian.

question. why do you think Israel does not want to cooperate with the Lithuanian persecutors?
Poland didnt have any NKVD in the inter-war period. They had their national state and nationalistic governnent.
it depends on definition of Poland from September 1939 NKVD terrrists took on Pols , Western Belarusians /Ukrainians

In the aftermath of the German and Soviet invasion of Poland, which took place in September 1939, the territory of Poland was divided in half between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. The Soviets had ceased to recognise the Polish state at the start of the invasion.[6][7] Both regimes were hostile to the Second Polish Republic as much as to the Polish people and their culture, thus aiming at their destruction.[8] Since 1939 German and Soviet officials coordinated their Poland-related policies and repressive actions. For nearly two years following the invasion, the two occupiers continued to discuss bilateral plans for dealing with the Polish resistance during Gestapo-NKVD Conferences until Germany's Operation Barbarossa against the Soviet Union, in June 1941.[9]

The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was broken and the new war erupted, the Soviets had already arrested and imprisoned about 500,000 Polish nationals in the Kresy macroregion including civic officials, military personnel and all other "enemies of the people" such as clergy and the Polish educators: about one in ten of all adult males. There is some controversy as to whether the Soviet Union's policies were harsher than those of Nazi Germany until that time.[10][11]

There were pre-war Polish citizens who saw the Soviet NKVD presence as an opportunity to start political and social agitation. Many of them committed treason against the Polish state by assisting in round ups and executions of Polish officials.[12] Their enthusiasm however faded with time as it became clear that the Soviet repressions were aimed at all peoples equally.[13]In August 2009 the Polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) researchers estimated Poland's dead (including Polish Jews) at between 5.47 and 5.67 million (due to German actions) and 150,000 (due to Soviet), or around 5.62 and 5.82 million total[14][15]



Soviet repressions of Polish citizens (1939–1946) - Wikipedia
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In the aftermath of the German and Soviet invasion of Poland, which took place in September ... Around 55% of the deportees to Siberia and Soviet Central Asia were Polish women. In 1940 and the first half of ... References[edit]. Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin, New York, Basic Books, 2010.
 
Many Baltic Jews supported the USSR after it conquered the Baltic States in 1939. They were considered traitors by non-Jew citizens in Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia. So, when the Germans took control in 1940, the traitors were gladly exposed and turned over to the Germans.
the same situation was in Belarus, Ukraine, Poland in NKVD the Jews were over-represented , specially in 20-30s . another thing that many of them did not see thamslevs as the Jews. much like Koba who did not see himself as a Georgian.

question. why do you think Israel does not want to cooperate with the Lithuanian persecutors?
The article you posted is 13 years old.
 
Many Baltic Jews supported the USSR after it conquered the Baltic States in 1939. They were considered traitors by non-Jew citizens in Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia. So, when the Germans took control in 1940, the traitors were gladly exposed and turned over to the Germans.
the same situation was in Belarus, Ukraine, Poland in NKVD the Jews were over-represented , specially in 20-30s . another thing that many of them did not see thamslevs as the Jews. much like Koba who did not see himself as a Georgian.

question. why do you think Israel does not want to cooperate with the Lithuanian persecutors?
The article you posted is 13 years old.
there are plenty more up to date articles and books on this subject , this case was not solved , Israel is still keeping NKVD man Yitzhak Arad away from prosecution in Europe

Population Displacement in Lithuania in the Twentieth ...
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The tensions between Lithuanians and Poles, combined with the economic turmoil, ... 22 Yitzhak Arad, “The Concentration of Refugees in Vilna on the Eve of the ...
Tomas Balkelis, ‎Violeta Davoliūtė - 2016 - ‎History
 

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