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Chasing down Jewish partisans - not Nazi collaborators
 Thursday, August 7, 2008 Print this article Forward this article

Haaretz

By Yossi Melman

A few months ago, Lithuanian policemen and agents from the security service knocked on Rachel Margolis’ door in Vilna. Fortunately she was not home, and was thus saved the humiliation of an interrogation. Margolis, almost 90, who was a Jewish partisan during World War II, is finding it difficult to recover from the trauma even now, when she is living in her daughter’s home in Rehovot. "My sin in the eyes of the nationalists and the anti-Semites in the Lithuanian government," she says, "was that I was a partisan and fought against the Nazis and their collaborators."

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