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Jewish Agency Leader: Remove Chicago Monument of Nazi Collaborator
(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.