Vilnius, June 9, BNS–The Lithuanian Office of Prosecutor General reports they can’t open investigations in line with a request by the Lithuanian Jewish Community and the Center for the Study of the Genocide and Resistance of the Residents of Lithuania into Holocaust crimes allegedly committed by people named in a list handed over to them because none of the people on the list of 2,039 are still alive, the 15min.lt news site reported.

“The information possessed is insufficient to begin a pre-trial investigation. After becoming acquainted with the list, it is stated that these people are no longer alive, and therefore criminal prosecution is impossible,” Elena Martinonienė, head of the communications department of the Lithuanian Office of Prosecutor General, said.

The list investigated and edited by the Center for the Study of the Genocide and Resistance of the Residents of Lithuania contains 2,039 names of people alleged to have participated directly in the mass murder of Jews. This list was based on investigations by the center on a list of perpetrators published by the Association of Lithuanian Jews in Israel in 2009. The Center for the Study of the Genocide and Resistance of the Residents of Lithuania was charged with checking these names and initially came up with their own list of 1,071 names, although Lithuanian historians caution the list isn’t final and from 3,000 to 6,000 people were complicit in the Holocaust in Lithuania.