solid proof that he himself killed anyone when the country was occupied by the nazis the simon wiesenthal center believes he led a gang of local vigilantes which persecuted the jewish community we heard from the director of the simon wiesenthal center in jerusalem. thinks it is an insult to the victims of the war. it's basically spitting in the face of holocaust survivors of the jewish community of any person with any morality who expects a member of the e.u. to preserve certain values and i can promise you that i don't mean people who collaborated with nazis is not one of the values of the european union or any other normal organization there's no evidence on the other hand that because himself killed anybody but the gang that he headed was actively involved in persecution from the top and that the soviet union crumbled there's been a very systematic attempt to rewrite the narrative of world war two and the holocaust they trying to hide the role played in the holocaust by local collaborators and in that respect you have to keep in mind that only at least in europe did collaboration with the naz

proof of an august himself killed anyone when the country was occupied by the nazis but the simon wiesenthal center believes that he led it gang of local vigilantes which persecuted to the jewish community ok let's talk about this now with the director of the simon wiesenthal center in jerusalem and friends your of mr joe off those who are rector this morning but they seem confident that this individual had no personal involvement in persecuting jews just explain it to us then why do you see it differently. first of all he himself admitted that he had headed a gang of the throwing of vigilantes which was inspired by the lithuanian activists front and which was involved in active persecution of jews during the initial weeks after the nazi invasion of the waning on june twenty second one hundred forty one so there's no doubt about that there's no evidence on the other hand because himself killed anybody but the gang that he headed was actively involved in persecution as this was something that was not unique to the way he was stationed but this was something that took place in many in many communitie

dr efraim zuroff from the jewish human rights organization the simon wiesenthal center says distorting the facts of the holocaust is a serious and pressing danger. this is common currency in the arab world in the muslim world where we face a very serious problem of holocaust denial holocaust distortion very often with the support of government the authority of government funding of government so this is not at all surprising. please that it was taken off but i have to say these this these are the stock arguments of moslems who acknowledge that the holocaust even took place and has a certain level this is actually progress because in in many parts of the arab world they don't even admitted the holocaust took place but in any event this is obviously a totally distorted picture of the events this is definitely a very serious danger and we see the very negative results already in certain places today regarding the holocaust in eastern europe there's been a systematic attempt to distort the history of the holocaust so in other words in countries like the through way in the latvia estonia uk