The Simon Wiesenthal Center called on Lithuania’s president-elect to help bring those guilty of Nazi-era war crimes to justice. In a letter to Rolandas Paksas, the director of the center’s Jerusalem office, Efraim Zuroff wrote that in recent years, Lithuania has done “very little” to prosecute such criminals.
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