An official with the Simon Wiesenthal Center said in a letter to Lithuania’s president that an alleged war criminal should be brought to justice. The trial of Aleksandras Lileikis was postponed in March and in May to give defense lawyers more time to find evidence and witnesses. “It appears that the trial of Lileikis may never actually take place,” wrote Efraim Zuroff, director of the center’s Jerusalem office. Lileikis, 91, is accused of collaborating in the deaths of Jews when he was head of Lithuania’s security police during the war.
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