Latvia’s prime minister said she would fire a cabinet minister planning to march with local SS veterans.
Einars Cilinskis, Latvia’s minister for
environment and regional development, said he would attend the March 16
rally in Riga, Reuters reported Friday.
Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma’s spokesman
Andis Blinds said: “Taking into account that the minister has said today
he would join the march and would not resign by himself, the prime
minister will later today sign an order for his dismissal.”
Now in their 80s and 90s, many of the Latvians
who joined the armed wing of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party were led by the
Latvian SS commander Viktor Arajs. He and his troops were responsible
for the murder of tens of thousands of Jews.
Of 70,000 Jews who lived in Lithuania during
German occupation, only 200 survived the Holocaust, according to the Yad
Vashem museum in Jerusalem.
In the Baltic nations, many people today
admire Nazi collaborators because they fought for independence against
the Russians, who occupied the Baltic nations until the 1990s.
Efraim Zuroff of the Israel office of the
Simon Wiesenthal Center told JTA he intended to participate in a
counter-demonstration in Riga against the Nazi march.
Earlier this week, Zuroff attended a small
counter-demonstration in Vilnius, in Lithuania. Zuroff and five other
people were there to protest the glorification of the Lithuanian Nazi
collaborator Juozas Ambrazevicius-Brazaitis at a nationalist march of
2,000 people in the center of Vilnius.
Admirers of people like
Ambrazevicius-Brazaitis and Arajs “are the spiritual heirs of those who
committed the crimes of the Holocaust,” Zuroff said. “It is unthinkable
that they should march through European Union capitals and cause
unimaginable pain to Holocaust survivors and their families.”
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