Vilnius – The British organisation locked in a row with the Lithuanian government over the future of the Jewish cemetery in Vilnius has demanded the return of two skeletons found on the site, to give them a proper burial.
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Rabbi Hershel Gluck, of the Stamford Hill-based Committee for the Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries in Europe, said the skeletons were found between two buildings being erected on top of the 700-year-old cemetery.
“The Lithuanian authorities are playing silly games,” said Rabbi Gluck. “First they did not tell us they had found the skeletons. Then they told us they might not be Jewish.”
He said the CPCJE believed more human remains may have been found and disposed of.
“We have asked for these skeletons to be returned to give them a proper Jewish burial, but so far they have not released them to us,” he said. [thejc]