>In 1961, the Soviet authorities decided to liquidate the old Jewish cemetery in Užupis. The tombstones were then used in construction, including on Tauro Hill, the municipality said.
God forbid you mention who turned most of Lithuania’s once immense Jewish community into plant fertilizer in the 1940s…
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>In 1961, the Soviet authorities decided to liquidate the old Jewish cemetery in Užupis. The tombstones were then used in construction, including on Tauro Hill, the municipality said.
God forbid you mention who turned most of Lithuania’s once immense Jewish community into plant fertilizer in the 1940s…
spoiler: it wasn’t just the Germans, far from it