Jonathan Saul
By Jonathan Saul
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Fast Forward Lithuanian Writers Spark Storm by Stirring Ghosts of Holocaust
Lithuanian writer Sigitas Parulskis first confronted the enormity of the Holocaust during a visit to London when he stumbled across a museum plaque showing collaborators from his small town who took part in the mass murder of Jews. Decades after the end of World War Two, in which six million Jews across Europe were annihilated…
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Fast Forward 21 Lost Latvia Synagogues Recreated as Scale Models
Decades after their destruction by the Nazis, Latvia’s lost synagogues have been recreated in detailed model form as part of efforts to recapture and document the once-rich Jewish life in the Baltic country. There were 210 synagogues in Latvia before World War Two, with styles ranging from ornate neo-Renaissance and neo-Romanesque buildings to humble wooden…
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