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New York (JTA) — Respon-
ding to an outcry from Jew-
ish groups, the Lithuanian
government has reversed
the rehabilitation of six
former prisoners who col-
laborated with the Nazis
during the Holocaust, the
Simon Wiesenthal Center
reported.
The six names were sub-
mitted last year by the
Wiesenthal Center and
other Jewish groups to
Lithuanian officials after it
was made known that
Vilnius had embarked on a
project to reverse prison
sentences meted out by the
Soviet Communist govern-
ment.
The Lithuanian govern-
ment had proceeded with the
pardons in its first birth
pangs as an independent
country shucking off the
legal and penal encum-
brances of Soviet rule.
Some 35,000 Lithuanians
convicted of war crimes by
the Soviet regime were ex-
onerated of any wrongdoing
by the democratically elect-
ed Lithuanian government.
Information about the re-
versal of pardons for six. of
those individuals was given
to Efraim Zuroff, director of
the Wiesenthal Center's
Israeli office, by the new
Lithuanian president,
Algirdas Brazauskis.
Mr. Zuroff was in
Lithuania on behalf of
Knesset Speaker Shevach
Weiss, himself a Holocaust
survivor, to arrange an up-
coming visit by an Israeli
delegation that is to
negotiate the terms of a joint
Lithuanian-Israeli commis-
sion of inquiry.
A commission to review
the rehabilitations was
agreed upon last year by
then-President Vytautas
Landsbergis. He told Ameri-
can Jewish communal
leaders at the time that his
government was working to
determine which cases
should not have been
rehabilitated in the mass
amnesty.
Mr. Landsbergis' party,
Sajudis, was defeated in the
recent Lithuanian elections
and he now heads the oppo-
sition.
At the meeting with Mr.
Zuroff, Mr. Brazauskis, a
former Communist who
broke with Moscow early on,
indicated that his govern-
ment is willing to play an ac-
tive role in the investigation
of Nazi war criminals.
But he said Vilnius has
been noncommittal about
his specific complaints
regarding the reluctance of
Lithuanian nationals to
testify against Lithuanian
war criminals living abroad.
This phenomenon, which
has developed with Lithua-
nian independence, has been
a major obstacle to the pros-
ecution of Nazi war
criminals living in Canada,
Australian and the United
Kingdom.
"Unfortunately, in many-
cases fellow perpetrators are
the sole witnesses, and
without their testimony,
some of the worst of Hitler's
henchmen will never be
brought to trial," Mr. Zuroff
said in a statement released;
in Jerusalem.
Mr. Zuroff also visited
Estonia and met with Prime
Minister Mart Laar, who in-
dicated that his government
A commission to
review the
rehabilitations was
agreed upon.
would participate in effort_
to investigate and prosecute
Nazi collaborators in cases
in which sufficient evidence
could be found.
At his request, Mr. Zuroff
was granted access to the
former KGB archives an
was able to examine the files
of suspected Nazi war
criminal Evald Mikson, who
lives in Iceland under the
name Edward Hinriksson.
Mr. Mikson is alleged to
have been a Gestapo in
vestigator at the Tartu con-
centration camp who carrie
out executions near the
camp.
In October, the Icelandic
government recommended
that no action be taken in
the Mikson case. Mr. Zuro
said the Icelandic judicia
commission that examined
Mr. Mikson's background
failed to sufficiently look
into it.
He maintained that it
"made no effort to ask th
governments of Estonia an
Sweden for the pertinent
documentation."
Mr. Zuroff said the KGB
files "contain numerous
witness statements regar-
ding Mikson's participation