Lithuania's Tragedy. 1941-1944 Years. Collection of Archival Documents

The previously unpublished materials from Russian archives fill with consternation even 60 years after the events. Death seems to be happy deliverance when contemplating the sufferings and torture that the innocent citizens of Lithuania had to endure during the years of Nazi occupation. Reading the evidence of the eye-witnesses one understands why people would ask for death in order to stop the monstrous torture and insult they were subjects to. Not only the hated Soviet and party functionaries who were "guilty" of establishing the Soviet regime in Lithuania, not only the Jews who are always "guilty" of everything for the mere reason of being Jews, but also the Polish, clergy, mentally disabled, old people, babies - all of them were totally eliminated. Lithuania was turned into a "factory of death". The documents in this collection constitute a mere fraction of the wealth of material found in the archives of Russia, Lithuania, Germany and other countries.