U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) is hopeful that an "open and honest" approach, and a letter from 58 of his Washington colleagues, will help to resolve a long-standing dispute about the fate of a rich collection of tens of thousands of pre-Holocaust documents in Lithuania.
Durbin, who was invited by Lithuania and Poland to visit those countries on a week-long trip, told the Jewish Star last Friday before leaving Washington that he first learned of the collection in November from a newspaper article.
The material documents Jewish life during the inter-war years in what was then Polish Wilno (Russian, Vilna; Lithuanian, Vilnius). Notwithstanding the political and economic …
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