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New York (JTA) — Some
progress is being made
toward undoing the
wrongful exoneration of
Nazi collaborators in
Lithuania, according to a
Simon Wiesenthal Center of-
ficial who just returned from
the Baltic state.
But it is "an uphill battle,"
waged against a government
"reluctant to admit the
scope of the problem or to
deal with it in a forthright
manner," according to the
Wiesenthal Center's Israel
office director, Efraim
Zuroff, who visited
Lithuania from Oct. 22 to 28.
Mr. Zuroff also serves as
director of the Wiesenthal
Center's research on Nazi
war criminals.
Some 35,000 Lithuanians
who were convicted of war
crimes by the Soviet regime
have been exonerated of any
wrongdoing by the newly
democratic Lithuanian
government. Some Lithua-
nians who actually aided in
Nazi efforts to exterminate
the Jews have been awarded
financial compensation for
time spent in Soviet prisons
and have had confiscated
property returned to them or
their estates.
There is some support
among members of the
Lithuanian parliament for
passage of an amendment
allowing for the rescision of
wrongful exonerations, but
that support is far from uni-
versal, said Mr. Zuroff in an
interview from Israel.
The Los Angeles-based
Holocaust research center
has appointed a permanent
representative in Vilnius,
attorney Faina Kuklian-
skyte, to work on the effort.
The law which the Wiesen-
thal Center wants amended,
passed in May 1990, pro-
hibits the rehabilitation of
individuals who participated
in genocide.
But the procurator gen-
eral, the country's chief
prosecutor, "is interpreting
the law in its most narrow
sense," Mr. Zuroff said, and
is interested "only in people
who pulled the trigger," not
those "who led Jews to their
slaughter."
Until the law is amended,
there is no way to reverse
the process of exoneration
and restitution.
The only Jewish member
of the 141-person Lithua-
nian parliament, Emmanuel
Zingeris, was to introduce
the issue into the legislative
body for discussion, Mr.
Zuroff said.
While in Lithuania, Mr.
Zuroff met with President
Vytautas Landsbergis, Pro-
curator General Arturas
Paulauskas, Supreme Court
Justice Aristides
Pestininkas and several
members of parliament.
"We found a certain
degree of understanding,"
Mr. Zuroff said. "But not
everyone agrees (with us)."
One of the major obstacles,
he said, is that the Lithua-
nian government has not
decided whether or not to es-
tablish an independent
commission of review to ex-
amine all cases of alleged
crimes involving collabora-
tion with the Nazis.
They are also undecided
about whether or not to
make public the names of
Until the law is
amended, there is
no way to reverse
the process of
exoneration and
restitution.
those exonerated so that
Holocaust survivors can
come forward if they recog-
nize the names of their
tormentors.
"The Lithuanians are in-
terested in rehabilitating as
many people as possible,"
Mr. Zuroff noted.
Complicating the picture
is the fact that Lithuanian
Supreme Court Justice
Genadijus Slauta, who, in an
Oct. 17 New York Times
article, said that the
court would reverse any
miscarriages of justice, is
apparently distancing
himself from that position.
Mr. Slauta, who was
"nowhere to be found" dur-
ing Mr. Zuroff's visit, now
claims to have been mis-
quoted by the Times, Mr.
Zuroff said.
"Slauta's reticence is
part of the enormous
pressure brought to bear on
those who spoke out on this
issue, pressure from the
Lithuanian government,
which wants to minimize the
problem," according to Mr.
Zuroff.
There is "a desire to over-
turn all of the convictions
carried out by Soviet courts,
to undo the results of Com-
munist rule," he said.
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