Anger flares over Lithuania sports complex planned over Jewish graveyard

"The many thousands buried here have no descendants or relatives to stand up for the integrity and dignity of their graves precisely because of the Holocaust," says a Vilnius-based scholar.

A man walks past a sign at a commemoration place during the March of the Living to honor Holocaust victims in Paneriai near Vilnius, Lithuania

A man walks past a sign at a commemoration place during the March of the Living to honor Holocaust victims in Paneriai near Vilnius, Lithuania

(photo credit: REUTERS)

AUGUST 11, 2015 18:40

Updated: AUGUST 12, 2015 00:11