A forgotten Holocaust

The brutal occupation of Lithuania by Nazi Germany during the Second World War wiped out 95% of the country's Jewish population and tens of thousands of civilian Slavs

Last month I wrote about the deeply affecting experience of my recent visit to the former Gestapo and KGB prison in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius. For several decades, political prisoners were incarcerated and tortured in what is now the Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights. In the two decades from 1944, more than 1,000 inmates were executed.

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