Our People Discovering Lithuania's Hidden Holocaust, 2019 — Association of Jews of Vilna and vicinity in Israel

From 1941-1944, during the Nazi regime, 200,000 Lithuanian Jews were annihilated in 234 mass murder sites around  Lithuania.

Why were they murdered? How? Who by?

Rŭta Vanagaitė, a writer and Lithuanian journalist, whose distant relatives were among those who cooperated with the murderous Nazi regime, began seeking answers to those questions. Her research in archives and trips to the mass murder sites were carried out together with Dr. Efraim Zuroff, a historian and Nazi hunter. The Association of Jews of Vilna decided to invite Ms. Vanagaitė to Bet Vilna in Tel Aviv to present to us the testimonies and the evidence she discovered, which she documented in her book Our People Discovering Lithuania's Hidden Holocaust.

The book, which was published in 2016, describes the cooperation between Germany and Lithuania that led to the death of many innocent people; it became a best-seller and created a national outcry there when accusations of "distorting the historical truth" were leveled at Rŭta Vanagaitė by some Lithuanian groups saying it was "A Threat to National Security".