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Last year, the Alma Littera publishing house in Lithuania recalled another book by Vanagaite after she spoke in an interview about Adolfas Ramanauskas, an anti-Soviet combatant during the war, who admitted to commanding troops that witnesses said butchered Jews in the ghetto of Druskininkai, 75 miles southwest of Vilnius.Vanagaite’s controversial statement was not about the Holocaust. She said her research into Ramanauskas’s death in 1957 suggested he committed suicide after betraying the names of fellow nationalists to the KGB, which captured Ramanauskas the previous year.“Rūta Vanagaitė’s statements are unacceptable to us and incompatible with the values of the Alma Littera publishing house,” its CEO, Danguolė Viliūnienė, said in a statement. Vanagaite has since left Lithuania.Last week, the New York Times published a critical article about the alleged downplaying of the Holocaust at the Museum of Genocide Victims in Vilnius. The state-run institution until 2011 did not mention the more than 200,000 Lithuanian Jews who died in the Nazi Holocaust.Lithuania is the world’s only country that officially defines the domination of its territory by the former Soviet Union as a form of genocide, which is the museum’s main theme.
Lithuanian bill would ban books critical of the country
The proposed law is said to be "one of the most blatant and harshest" laws curtailing free speech in Europe.
