Donatas Januta: Reply to Olga Zabludoff re Holocaust in Lithuania
Honest differences of opinion do not mean bad intentions or motives

Donatas Januta

Dear Olga,

I have sincerely and honestly tried to respond to you. But you keep changing the rules on me, and you attribute to me intentions and motives which I have not stated and do not have.

We seem to agree on the important basic points. Yes, the Jewish Holocaust was and is the most terrible tragedy that has occurred in Europe. And if I could do anything to undo it, I would. Yes, I do not dispute Israeli historian Dina Porat’s conclusion that half of one percent (0.5%) of Lithuanians were involved directly or indirectly in the German organized killing of Jews. But beyond that, we, including yourself, get into the specifics of individual events – the where, why, and how – and there we do not seem to be able to find common ground.

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