Ngemva kokuthola izinsongo eziningi, LithuaniaUmphakathi wamaJuda unqume ukuvala unomphela isinagoge elisebenza enhloko-dolobha yase Vilnius. Lokhu kuza phakathi kwenkulumompikiswano eshubile yomphakathi mayelana nokutuswa kwezwe ababambisene namaNazi.
Isikhungo samaJuda kanye neSinagoge samaChoral esinomlando eVilnius sizovala "isikhathi esinqunyiwe," kusho iLithuanian Jewish Community (LJC) esitatimendeni esikuwebhusayithi yabo. Isinqumo senziwe ngemuva kokuthi i-LJC ithole “izingcingo nezincwadi ezisabisayo ezinsukwini ezisanda kwedlula.”
Abashisekeli bobuzwe kanye nabaphiko lwesokudla enhloko-dolobha yase-Lithuania bacasukile ngokukhishwa koqwembe lokukhumbula umhlanganyeli wamaNazi emnyango we-Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. Esinyathelweni esifanayo, umasipala waseVilnius ngeledlule uqambe kabusha umgwaqo owawuqanjwe ngosomaqhinga ngesikhathi sempi nozakwabo kaHitler.
AmaJuda aseLithuania ahalalisela lezi zinqumo njengezedlule isikhathi eside - kuyilapho abezizwe besabisa ngemibhikisho kazwelonke ukuphendula.
LOKHO ONGAKUTHATHE KULESI SIHLOKO:
- Nationalists and right-wing elements in Lithuania's capital are incensed over the removal of a plaque commemorating a Nazi collaborator at the entrance to the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences.
- A Jewish center and the historic Choral Synagogue in Vilnius will close for “an indeterminate period,” the Lithuanian Jewish Community (LJC) said in a statement on their website.
- In a similar move, the Vilnius municipality last week renamed a street that had been named after one wartime diplomat and Hitler ally.
