(Jerusalem Post) Jewish Agency for Israel Chairman Isaac Herzog last week expressed his support for the efforts of Jewish leaders in Chicago who have protested a newly erected monument honoring a Lithuanian World War II-era commander who collaborated with the Nazis. According to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas admitted in his memoirs that he led a gang of vigilantes that persecuted the Jewish community of Druskininkai, Lithuania. "It is inconceivable that on the soil of the United States...there is a memorial to an alleged murderer who cooperated with the Nazis and was involved in the mass slaughter of Jews," Herzog said.
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