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A famous Nazi hunter and a descendent of Nazi collaborators team up on a journey to uncover Lithuania's Holocaust secrets. This remarkable book traces the quest for the truth about the Holocaust in Lithuania by two ostensible enemies: Rūta a descendant of the perpetrators, Efraim a descendant of the victims. Rūta Vanagaitė, a successful Lithuanian writer, was motivated by her recent discoveries that some of her relatives had played a role in the mass murder of Jews and that Lithuanian officials had tried to hide the complicity of local collaborators. Efraim Zuroff, a noted Israeli Nazi hunter, had both professional and personal motivations. He had worked for years to bring Lithuanian war criminals to justice and to compel local authorities to tell the truth about the Holocaust in their country. The facts that his maternal grandparents were born in Lithuania and that he was named for a great-uncle who was murdered with his family in Vilnius with the active help of Lithuanians

Книга литовской писательницы и журналистки Руты Ванагайте, написанная при участии Эфраима Зуроффа, вышла в 2016 году, в год 75 летия трагических событий 1941 года, когда в Литве были уничтожены практически все евреи. Всего в 1941–44 годах в Литве погибло около 200 тысяч евреев. В литовских лесах насчитывают 227 мест массовых убийств. В книге приведены документы того времени, показания людей, участвовавших в расстрелах. Ванагайте с известным охотником за нацистами Эфраимом Зуроффом отправляется в путь по местам, где убивали евреев, и общается с оставшимися в живых очевидцами тех событий