The Simon Wiesenthal Center on Tuesday called on the mayor of Kaunas City, Lithuania, to put an immediate end to recreational activities held at a former concentration camp at the Seventh Fort heritage site.The letter comes following JTA's exposé that the site is used as a wedding venue, in addition to the services offered on the Seventh Fort website which include children's parties and camps, military-themed birthday parties, and themed parties for adults.
In a letter addressed to Kaunas mayor Visvaldas Matijosaitis, the Center's Director for Eastern European Affairs, Holocaust historian Dr. Efraim Zuroff slammed the use of the site for such activities as "disgraceful."
"As you no doubt are aware, the site of the mass murder of several thousand Jews in 1941 was privatized several years ago, and has now been turned into a recreation and entertainment center which violates the memory of the victims," Zuroff wrote.
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