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Surviving Witnesses

Since the beginning of 2008 the office of public prosecutors has been investigating former Jewish partisans. They are being identified in connection with partisan activities in which Lithuania civilians died.

Two of these former partisans are Rachel Margolis and Fania Brantsovsky.

Both of them were imprisoned in the ghettos, which were set up by the Germans and their Lithuanian collaborators. They fought within autonomous Jewish groups or Soviet partisan units against the Nazi occupiers.

Throughout 18 years of Lithuanian independence not a single Nazi collaborator, who was jointly responsible for the murder of 220,000 Jews in the years 1941 to 1944, has been prosecuted.