Rescued Jewish Children
19 August 2004
To His Excellency
President of the Republic of Lithuania
Valdas Adamkus
Simono Daukanto a. 3,
Vilnius LT- 01021
Lithuania
To His Excellency
Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania
Algirdas Brazauskas
Gedimino pr. 11,
Vilnius LT-01103
Lithuania
To His Excellency
Speaker of Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania
Artūras Paulauskas
Gedimino pr. 53,
Vilnius LT-01109
Lithuania
Dear Sirs,
I hereby address you and all former and future Presidents, Prime Ministers and Speakers of the Republic of Lithuania other public officials, public figures and all people of good will, and ask you to unite your efforts to erect a monument for those who have rescued Jews during the German occupation.
They did their most outstanding national duty.
They were the true conscience of the nation in those times.
They were the blossoms of the national moral and the nation’s spiritual nobles – whether they were people of education or simple illiterate men and women, priests carrying the true love for the neighbour or ordinary farmers, who sowed seeds into the ground, that later sprang up with sprouts of life, and who equally knew the value of human life.
They deliberately or subconsciously resisted the destructive Nazi power and its tools – the people who killed.
We have to remember and celebrate their heroism based on conscience, moral, love for their neighbours, and simple human compassion.
Their names have been perpetuated on the Mount of Memory in Jerusalem.
Their names should be carved with golden letters in the independent Lithuania as well.
A monument should be erected for the Righteous of the Lithuanian nation, for those who carried the light of conscience, moral and love for their neighbours in their unarmed, scorched hands in the times of the deepest darkness.
Let this magnificent monument be erected and inscribed with names from the foot to the top so everyone could repeat those names as a prayer – us and future generations alike.
I believe that my voice will be heard.
Respectfully and hopefully,
Yours
Icchokas Meras
To His Excellency
President of the Republic of Lithuania
Valdas Adamkus
Simono Daukanto a. 3,
Vilnius LT- 01021
Lithuania
To His Excellency
Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania
Algirdas Brazauskas
Gedimino pr. 11,
Vilnius LT-01103
Lithuania
To His Excellency
Speaker of Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania
Artūras Paulauskas
Gedimino pr. 53,
Vilnius LT-01109
Lithuania
Dear Sirs,
I hereby address you and all former and future Presidents, Prime Ministers and Speakers of the Republic of Lithuania other public officials, public figures and all people of good will, and ask you to unite your efforts to erect a monument for those who have rescued Jews during the German occupation.
They did their most outstanding national duty.
They were the true conscience of the nation in those times.
They were the blossoms of the national moral and the nation’s spiritual nobles – whether they were people of education or simple illiterate men and women, priests carrying the true love for the neighbour or ordinary farmers, who sowed seeds into the ground, that later sprang up with sprouts of life, and who equally knew the value of human life.
They deliberately or subconsciously resisted the destructive Nazi power and its tools – the people who killed.
We have to remember and celebrate their heroism based on conscience, moral, love for their neighbours, and simple human compassion.
Their names have been perpetuated on the Mount of Memory in Jerusalem.
Their names should be carved with golden letters in the independent Lithuania as well.
A monument should be erected for the Righteous of the Lithuanian nation, for those who carried the light of conscience, moral and love for their neighbours in their unarmed, scorched hands in the times of the deepest darkness.
Let this magnificent monument be erected and inscribed with names from the foot to the top so everyone could repeat those names as a prayer – us and future generations alike.
I believe that my voice will be heard.
Respectfully and hopefully,
Yours
Icchokas Meras