Hello Phil and Colleagues
The article is interesting but some might wonder why it is necessary to
make a controversy out of the competing genocides.There are two museums,
two target groups; what's the problem?
Lemkin of course coined the term genocide in connection with the
Armenian tragedy, not the subsequent one that befell his own people. It
would be a wonderful world in which everybody took an interest in the
suffering of others with whom they don't have a close connection, but it
would be surprising if citizens of a newly independent country like
Lithuania, engaging in a difficult process of self-definition, could do
this without a great deal of effort.
And it's hard to imagine that the few remaining Jews left in Lithuania
would want to focus equally on the Nazi and the Soviet persecutins.
Just maybe, as the article argues, the chance of EC money will
kick-start some collaboration between the museums. I can't see it
myself. From the looks of recent grants in Estonia and Latvia it'll just
be majority-experience projects that will get the funding. Not a bad
thing in any case. At least for starters.
I very much look forward to reading the TM article
- Victor
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Colleagues...
Some may be interested in the attached article and link....
Regards
PHIL
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