Adolfas Ramanauskas: Difference between revisions

His wife Birutė Mažeikaitė was sentenced to 8 years in the [[Gulag]] system.<ref name="lggrtc" />

 

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Ramanauskas has been accused of supporting the [[Lithuanian Activist Front]] and commanding a paramilitary group that persecuted the Jewish community of Druskininkai in 1941.<ref name=swc>{{cite web|url=http://www.wiesenthal.com/about/news/2019_5-2-simon-wiesenthal-center-urges.html|website=[[Simon Wiesenthal Center]]|title=Simon Wiesenthal Center Urges Lithuanian Community: "Don't Build Monument To Honor Nazi Collaborator"|date=2 May 2019|access-date=7 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Netanyahu-should-not-tolerate-Holocaust-distortion-in-Lithuania-565548|title=Netanyahu Should Not Tolerate Holocaust Distortion in Lithuania|first=Efraim|last=Zuroff|date=23 August 2018|access-date=6 July 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Lithuanian publisher recalls books by writer who triggered Holocaust debate|first=Cnaan|last=Liphshiz|date=30 October 2017|newspaper=[[The Times of Israel]]|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/lithuanian-publisher-recalls-books-by-writer-who-triggered-holocaust-debate/}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last1=Schmitt | first1=Michael N. | last2=Arimatsu | first2=Louise | last3=McCormack | first3=T. | title=Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law | publisher=[[T.M.C. Asser Instituut|T.M.C. Asser Press]] |volume=13| year=2010 | isbn=978-90-6704-811-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hYiIWVlpFzEC&pg=PA582 | page=582}}</ref><ref name=cohen>{{cite news|first=Ben|last=Cohen|url=https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/05/08/row-simmers-over-chicago-monument-to-lithuanian-national-hero-implicated-in-ww2-crimes-against-jews/|title=Row Simmers Over Chicago Monument to Lithuanian National Hero Implicated in WW2 Crimes Against Jews|newspaper=[[The Algemeiner]]|date=8 May 2019|access-date=19 May 2019}}</ref> In his memoirs, Ramanauskas recalled leading a [[Lithuanian partisans (1941)|partisan unit]] in Nazi-occupied Druskininkai. Multiple residents of Druskininkai claimed to have witnessed partisans beating and killing Jews and suspected communists. Contemporary police documents indicate that armed partisan groups in Druskininkai executed at least 28 people.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Footprints of Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas in the Mass Murder of the Jews of Druskininkai|url=http://defendinghistory.com/footprints-adolfas-ramanauskas-vanagas-mass-murder-jews-druskininkai/65177|first=Evaldas|last=Balčiūnas|journal=Defending History|date=27 March 2014|access-date=7 May 2019|translator-first=Geoff|translator-last=Vasil}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=More Evidence: Did Adolfas Ramanauskas's Lead a Hitlerist Militia in the Early Days of the Lithuanian Holocaust?|url=https://defendinghistory.com/more-evidence-of-adolfas-ramanauskass-leading-a-hitlerist-militia-in-early-days-of-lithuanian-holocaust/99094|first=Evaldas|last=Balčiūnas|journal=Defending History|date=13 May 2019|access-date=17 July 2022}}</ref>