1 Articles and other media on Latvia and Lithuania 15.03.2014

List of Published Articles by Monica Lowenberg

In chronological order since launching petition Stop the 16 March marches in Riga , 20 January, 2012.

Latvia

Latvia: A personal march through history http://www.ajr.org.uk/journalpdf/2012_April.pdf

published in the AJR Journal (Association of Jewish Refugees, UK), Volume 12, April 2012 page 4 by

Monica Lowenberg also published by Second Generation Network, Voices May 2012

Latvia’s difficult legacy What is March 16th? by Monica Lowenberg published by the Holocaust

Educational Trust and Second Generation Network, Voices April 2012

Monica Lowenberg in Dialogue with Latvian Ambassador to Uk March 2012 published by

DefendingHistory.com http://defendinghistory.com/monica-lowenberg-in-dialogue-with-latvias-

ambassador-to-the-uk/32025#more-32025

An open Letter from Monica Lowenberg to Denis MacShane published in the New Statesman, March

2012 http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2012/03/latvia-riga-waffen-european

Latvia’s Nazi Nostalgia by Monica Lowenberg

http://2ndgenerationforum.wordpress.com/2013/11/04/latvias-nazi-nostalgia/

published by Second Generation Forum 'Latvia's Nazi Nostalgia' October 2012

EU- Real problem is not Latvia by Daniel Hannan (British conservative MP) , 26 October 2012

published in the Jewish Chronicle http://www.thejc.com/comment-and-

debate/comment/88135/eu-real-problem-not-latvia and response by Monica Lowenberg

published in The Jewish Chronicle, Letters section, 2 November 2012 'A Special Kind of Blindness'

2 November 2012. Jewish Chronicle: Letters to the editor from Richard Cooper, David Sumberg,

Monica Lowenberg.

Cameron’s Latvian Liaison, one woman’s petition and one SS march

http://defendinghistory.com/cameron latvian-liaison-one-womans-petition-and-one-ss- march-by-

monica-lowenberg/51105 by Monica Lowenberg published by DefendingHistory.Com 15.03.2013

Images from the March 16th 2013 Annual Glorification of Latvian Waffen SS in Riga published by

Defending History.com 3 April 2013 by Monica Lowenberg http://defendinghistory.com/riga-march-

16-2013-annual-glorification-of-latvian-waffen-ss51949/51949#more-51949

On the Eve of Yom Hashoah Great Britain sinks into littleness on the Holocaust

http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/04/04/on-the-eve-of-yom-hashoah-great-britain-sinks-into-

littleness-on-the-holocaust/ by Monica Lowenberg published in the Algemeiner 4.4.2013

The Photoshoots Hague would rather forget

http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/news/world/article/1002/the-photo-shoots-hague

-would-rather-forget by Monica Lowenberg published by Hope Not Hate . A Hope not Hate

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Special 5.4.2013 and reposted by the Foreign Office http://defendinghistory.com/wp-

content/uploads/2013/04/On-Foreign-Office-website-5-6-April-2013.pdf

You can't praise Hitler's troops and champion human rights, Mr Hague and Mr Lidington. Opinion

piece by Monica Lowenberg published by Jewish News 02.05.2013 http://defendinghistory.com/wp-

content/uploads/2013/05/Monica-Lowenberg-in-London-Jews-News-2-May-2013.pdf

Riga, Roots and Reflections http://defendinghistory.com/riga-roots-and-reflections/60217

By Monica Lowenberg, published by Defending History.com 28.10.2013

Latvian state dance troupe displays Nazi swastika by Graeme Atkinson, International Editor Hope

Not Hate and Monica Lowenberg published by Hope Not Hate, 24 November 2013

http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/news/world/article/1579/lartvian-state-dance-t

roupe-displays-nazi-swastika

Riga, Capital of European Culture: Waffen SS, Stags and Silence? By Monica Lowenberg, published by DefendingHistory.com 4 February 2014

http://defendinghistory.com/riga-capital-of-european-culture-waffen-ss-stags-and-

silence/63468#more-63468

Has Latvia turned a corner? By Monica Lowenberg, published by Hope Not Hate, 12 March 2014 http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/news/world/article/1784/has-latvia-turned-a-co

Lithuania

End of the World. And The Day After... by Monica Lowenberg published by DefendingHistory.com ,

24 December 2012 http://defendinghistory.com/monica-lowenberg-the-end-of-the-world-and-the-

day-after/47547#more-47547

Responsible for protest at Lithuanian Embassy in London, December 2012 All coverage published by

DefendingHistory.com December 2012, London Conference at UCL and Protest (Box Coverage to 24

Dec)

DOCUMENTS: Petition (with links; with select signatures) ◊ Petitioner’s dossier. UPDATES: Petition’s

first effect ◊ Jewish Chronicle ◊ London Jewish News ◊ UCL Hebrew Dept lets Holocaust survivors

down ◊ Disinformation campaign ◊ Monica Lowenberg looks back at the events (24 Dec.

2012). LETTERS: Alumnus writes to provost (& to ambassador) ◊ Ruth Barnett ◊ Hans Coppi (English)

◊ (Rachel Margolis’s cousin) Budd Margolis ◊ Gert Weisskirchen

VIDEO FROM THE EVENT: 1, 2, and 3

Lowenberg family sever life long ties with British ORT, letter from Monica and Ernest Lowenberg to

Dan Green chief executive at British ORT, 27 November 2013 http://defendinghistory.com/monica-

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lowenberg-releases-text-of-letter-to-british-ort-on-latest-lithuanian-embassy-supported-litvak-do-in-

london/61142

A selection of Interviews:

Monday 8 July 2013, 'Jewish Hour' on Salford City Radio 94.4FM

Interview with Monica Lowenberg speaking about her trip to Latvia and the annual SS marches that

take place in the capital of Riga.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTCjdF_TNzA

Nazi Heroes- Waffen SS hailed in Latvia . Interview with Russia Today, Joel Rubinfeld co-chairman

of the Jewish parliament in Brussels, Monica Lowenberg and Glyn Ford MEP ,UK Labour Party,

Brussels ,'Any government that endorses this kind of action is cause for concern'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ-DNbz3wmA 16 March 2012 VIEWS: over 107,000 as of 16

March 2014. However, this video 'disappeared' 18.03.2014... but can be viewed here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIjPdaviDWY

The Baltics March to a Dangerous Drum

You Tube clip with Dr Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, Israel and Dr Hans

Coppi , Berlin

Photo reportage covering all three Baltic Neo-Nazi marches in 2014 . The reportage is

accompanied by an interview with Dr Efraim Zuroff on Salford City Radio, 24 March 2014

and MEP Richard Howitt's speech condemning the SS march in Riga, read out on Salford City

radio station,17 March 2014.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MySjaQFO8Q0

Monica Lowenberg Author of Two Petitions:

1. Petition asking Lithuanian Ambassador London UK to abandon state sponsored anti-semitism and holocaust obfuscation

http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/he-ambassador-asta-skaisgirytė-liauškienė-lithuanian-ambassador-london-uk-abandon-state-sponsored-anti-semitism-and-holocaust-obfuscation

To help people find out more about the situation in Lithuania see http://defendinghistory.com/?p=47128

http://defendinghistory.com/december-2012-london-conference-and-protest-box-coverage-to-24-dec/47637 links to You Tube clips and articles and letters 2. Stop the 16 March marches in Riga, Latvia!

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Add your voice to this petition here: http://www.petitions24.com/stop_the_16_march_marches_and_latvians_revising_history

To help people find out more about the situation in Latvia I have created a blog on the marches under: http://stop16marchinriga.blogspot.com/ Further articles and statements by British and German MPs including John Mann, academics and journalists regarding the situation in Latvia and Lithuania see:

http://www.seventyyearsdeclaration.org/

http://defendinghistory.com/category/uk and footage from the film Rewriting History which highlights the 2012 presentation of the Seventy Years Declaration at the European Parliament, where it was received by EP president Martin Schulz

EARLY DAY MOTIONS IN THE UK PARLIAMENT: 2161; 2750; 2866

http://dipbt.bundestag.de/dip21/btd/17/093/1709384.pdf

Report by Dr Gregor Gysi in the Bundestag 24.04.2012 reporting on Monica Lowenberg’s work and the situation within Latvia

http://www.antisemitism.org.uk/press/press-releases/year-2012/latviamarch PCAA foundation” (UK) - Calls to ban the Baltic’s neo-Nazi marches

Council of Europe (§ 87)

Report on Latvia by the ECRI calling a halt to all forms of Nazi glorification February 21,2012:

In the framework of its statutory activities, ECRI conducts country-by-country monitoring work, which analyses the situation in each of the member States regarding racism and intolerance and draws up suggestions and proposals for dealing with the problems identified. In the report on Latvia published on February 21, 2012 ECRI expresses concern as regards the authorisation of certain public events to commemorate two incidents and the authorities’ reaction in this connection. As concerns the first incident, every year, on 16 March, a gathering commemorating soldiers who fought in a Latvian unit of the Waffen SS is held in the centre of Riga. In this connection, ECRI regrets that, in spring 2010, an administrative district court overruled a decision of the Riga City Council 27 prohibiting this march. Moreover, ECRI is concerned that the speaker of the Latvian Parliament allegedly publicly expressed regret for the formal prohibition of this event and that certain MPs have voted for the restoration of March 16 as day of remembrance.

SEE UK PAGE; ALSO: VYTENIS POVILAS ANDRIUKAITIS; PETER BEAUMONT; BOB BLACKMAN; MARTIN BRIGHT;

RICHARD BRODSKY; GORDON BROWN; SIMON BUTT; DAVID CESARANI; LEONIDAS DONSKIS; MARCUS DYSCH;

JONATHAN FREEDLAND, (2); BARRY GARDINER; AMELIA GENTLEMAN; SIR MARTIN GILBERT; ESTHER

GOLDBERG; MEHDI HASAN; LORD JANNER OF BRAUNSTONE; DOVID KATZ, (2); EDWARD LUCAS; JAMES

MACINTYRE; DENIS MACSHANE, (2); JOHN MANN; MANN, BOTTOMLEY & RUSSELL; RABBI BARRY

MARCUS; EDWARD McMILLAN-SCOTT; SEUMAS MILNE; MARCUS PAPADOPOULOS; LEIGH PHILLIPS; TESSA

RAJAK; WENDY ROBBINS; ANNA SLATER; EMMA STOCK; GEOFF VASIL; TIM WHEWELL; EFRAIM ZUROFF, (2)

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Other articles and films on the Conservatives unsavoury allies written already in 2009

I knew the day of Holocaust 'debate' would come. Just not in my lifetime . Why is it left to the US to confront

the Tories on an alliance with those who distort historical truth and defend Nazi collaborators? Jonathan

Freedland The Guardian, Tuesday 20 October 2009

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/oct/20/conservatives-european-allies-holocaust-deniers

See also

►Dovid Katz in the Jewish Week (30 Dec 2009)

►David Hirsh in Haaretz (25 Dec 2009)

►Efraim Zuroff in the Jerusalem Post (23 Dec 2009)

►Toby Axelrod on JTA (20 Dec 2009)

►Benny Weinthal in the Jerusalem Post (17 Dec 2009)

►Izi Leibler in the Jerusalem Post (16 Dec 2009)

►Dovid Katz and Clemens Heni in the AJ (4 Dec 2009)

►Dovid Katz in the Jewish Chronicle (30 Nov 2009)

►Tim Whewell in the Guardian (30 Nov 2009)

►Daiva Repečkaitė on Wonderland (14 Nov 2009)

►Mehdi Hasan in New Statesman (1 Nov 2009)

►Dovid Katz in the Irish Times (31 Oct 2009)

►John Mann MP (UK) in the Jewish Chronicle (29 Oct 2009)

►Daiva Repečkaitė on Wonderland (28 Oct 2009)

►Clemens Heni on WPK (26 Oct 2009)

►Jonathan Freedland in the Guardian (20 Oct 2009)

►Shimon Samuels at OSCE (5 Oct 2009)

►Paul Hockenos in Newsweek (2 Oct 2009)

►Efraim Zuroff in the Guardian (28 Sept 2009)

►Seumas Milne in the Guardian (9 Sept 2009)

►Dovid Katz on Three Definitions (Sept 2009)

►Jonathan Steele in the Guardian (19 Aug 2009)

►Leonidas Donskis on Europeanvoice.com (24 July 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3S0k8kNELk#t=265 During the Shoah, Nazi collaborators from

Lithuania and Latvia, helped murder more than 275,000 Jews – their neighbours – many of them

known as Litvaks, 96% of those countries Jewish population, the highest percentage rate in any

European country.

The film explores the search for these collaborators, the efforts to prosecute them and the refusal of

countries to bring their citizens to justice.

More info at richardbloomproductions.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWpE1GFAsdw&feature=youtu.be Defending Holocaust History

by Richard Bloom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbOWyW_1Dz0 Rachel Kostanian, who was for many years

director of the Green House Holocaust museum in Vilnius, and is the author and editor of noted

works on the Holocaust in Lithuania, shares her views in a strictly personal capacity (not representing

any institution) in an interview with Dovid Katz, formerly professor of Yiddish at Vilnius University,

now editor of DefendingHistory.com, a website dedicated to preserving Holocaust history and

countering claims to revise and delegitimize that history especially in Eastern Europe

Danny Ben-Moshe's documentary "Rewriting History" http://rewriting-history.org/

‘We survived it...’ The Riga Ghetto documentary by Juergen Hobrecht translated and narrated by

Monica Lowenberg

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