Lithuania votes to find new name for street heralding Nazi collaborator

July 26, 2019 by JNS
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The city council in Lithuania’s capital has voted to rename a street that currently bears the name of antisemitic Nazi collaborator Kazio Skirpos.

Kazio Skirpos. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

The final tally in the Vilnius city council decision to change the name of Kazio Skirpos Street was 21-16.

Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius supported the measure.

He said that in “a city that is open and respectful to all people, we can’t display extraordinary signs of respect to someone” like Skirpos.

Skirpos founded the Lithuanian Activist Front, which collaborated with the Nazis to kill Jews during the Holocaust.

Groups such as the Simon Wiesenthal Center had advocated for years for the street change.

JNS

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One Response to “Lithuania votes to find new name for street heralding Nazi collaborator”
  1. Adrian Jackson says:

    You cant rewrite history simply by a token street name change.

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