From
the Association of Lithuanian Jews in Israel, excerpts from a lecture
given by Dr. Efraim Zuroff, Director of the Wiesenthal Center,
Jerusalem, at the conference on "Litvaks in the World," August
2001
... In at least forty
communities, Jews were physically attacked by their Lithuanian
neighbors before the Nazis arrived, and in many places such attacks
were accompanied by indescribable brutality. In Uzpaliai, the murderer
Caponis raped the daughter of the local rabbi Leib Kamerantz in front
of him and then imprisoned Rabbi Kamerantz for several days without
food or water before finally executing him. ...
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