Lithuanian Holocaust Atlas Author: “I Crawled through the Underbrush to Find Commemorative Stones”

The Lithuanian internet news site 15min.lt has published an extensive interview with Milda Jakulytė-Vasil, the author and prime mover behind the Lithuanian Holocaust Atlas, a hardcopy manual on every known Holocaust mass murder site in Lithuania complete with GPS location and directions for drivers in Lithuanian and English, with an extensive interactive version on the web.

Known in Lithuanian as “Holokausto Lietuvoje atlasas,” the Lithuanian version is available here:
http://holocaustatlas.lt/LT/

with a complete English version here:
http://holocaustatlas.lt/EN/

In the interview on 15min.lt, Milda Jakulytė-Vasil recalled crawling through the brush to find long-neglected mass murder site commemorative markers. She also spoke about compiling the atlas and the help she received from the IHRA, but also from local people, local officials and politicians at the national level, including conservative opposition leader Andrius Kubilius.

Full interview in Lithuanian here.