New York – Efraim Zuroff’s great-uncle was kidnapped in Vilnius, Lithuania, on July 13, 1941, by a gang of Lithuanians “roaming the streets of the city looking for Jews with beards to arrest.”
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“He was taken to Lukiskis Prison — to this day the main jail in the city — and was murdered shortly thereafter,” says Zuroff. So were his wife and two boys.
Born seven years later in Brooklyn, New York, Zuroff was named for his great-uncle and grew up questioning his American-born parents about the Holocaust.
What were they doing? What could they have done?
“And my parents — they said, ‘Listen … we went to demonstrations, we tried to do what we could. But we didn’t really know what was going on, and it wasn’t clear what we could do. ”
That answer did not satisfy Zuroff.
“I wanted to know what the average Jew sitting in his living room in Baltimore, New York, Chicago, Miami, could have known by reading the newspapers.
“I wanted to try and understand how something like the Holocaust could have happened.”
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It wasn’t only the Lithuanians, but many Eastern Europeans who were participants in the Final Solution. Most of the 55 Nazis who have been deported from the USA in the last 25 years, were not Germans, but of various Eastern European nationalities. They served the German war machine with pride. However, whenever those cowards are caught, they never admit what they did, as they all suffer from selective amnesia. In 1964, Simon Weisenthal pointed out to the U.S. authorities that an Austrian Nazi by the name of Hermine Bruansteiner Ryan, was living in Queens, NY. It took the U.S. Justice Dept. seven years to bring a case against her, even though there were witnesses who testified that she was a sadistical, cruel guard at the Madjanek concentration camp in Poland. She was finally extradited to Germany in 1973. After a five year trial in Germany, she was sentenced to life imprisonment; however, she was let out after 15 years. Her husband was an Irish-American, who blamed the Jews for his wife’s legal problems!
Those Nazis and Jew haters are reincarnated into today’s haters, and the day will come for revenge from the one and only Hashem! Nekom Nikmas Dam Avadecha Hashafuch!
There is a huge Lithuanian emigree community in the Tampa / St. Petersberg Florida.area. I am certain that thousands of war criminals escaped there after the war. The younger murderers who were in their teens to early twenties in 1941 are still alive. The are living there today as retirees in their 80s to 90s living on Social Security and Medicare. Track them down !!! Send them back to their bloody murderous Nation.
There is a huge community of Finnish immigrants living a few miles south of West Palm Beach in Lake Worth and Lantana Florida. Same thing. They came after the war and settled there. Many are Nazi War Criminals. Hunt them down !!! T
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The Irish for the most part are very big Anti-Semites. My father was thrown into the East River in the 1940s on the second day of Rosh Hashana at Tashlich by two big Irish men. My father told me that every Easter after the priests would rile up the people against the Jews the Irish mobs would go to throw bricks at the shules in the Lower East Side. My father said the Irish cops were very brutal to Jews. I myself, as a youth and teenager was attacked by Irish teens too many times to count. I am a big guy and an excellent fighter. I bloodied them all, broke heads, almost blinded one of them with a rock thrown right into the eye, scraped their faces off on the sidewalk, broke kneecaps with bats, and choked many until they almost died all with Hashem’s help. Therefore, do not be surprized about the Irish. They hate us more than most other Americans probally as much as the Polish, Ukrainians, Lithauians etc.