When the best-selling author and journalist Ruta Vanagaite (born in 155 in Šiauliai, Lithuania) discovered that her own relatives were complicit in the murder of Lithuanian Jews, she became determined to awaken the consciousness of her countrymen. In this effort, she co-authored Mūsiškiai (Our People: A Journey with an Enemy, with Dr. Efraim Zuroff), a book that uncovers Lithuanians' war-time atrocities. In the face of hostility that her work has caused, Vanagaite is undertaking an international campaign for truth and justice. In her appearances and speeches held all over the world, she discusses with various audiences her struggle to break the silence and the enormous controversy her work has stirred. Mūsiškiai has deeply affected public discourse about Nazi collaborators and the search for truth among many young Europeans.
Ruta Vanagaite. The Murder and the Silence
