'There was no shortage of Holocaust perpetrators among the Jews themselves, especially in the ghetto self-government structures,' said Lithuanian lawmaker Valdas Rakutis.

'The horrific fate of Lithuanian Jewry during the Holocaust is no secret,' famous Nazi hunter Ephraim Zuroff wrote in The Jerusalem Post.

Netanyahu paid tribute to Lithuania's vanished Jewish community, decimated by the Nazis and and their local collaborators, and reminded the world that the State of Israel gives the Jewish people an unprecedented ability to protect themselves.

At a memorial ceremony to remember the Jews slain in the Holocaust, Netanyahu shared a personal story of tragedy and triumph.

'You couldn't really fight the German army, given our means, but we did our best to disrupt them,' recalled Baruch Shub, who fought the Nazis during the Holocaust. 

An escape tunnel in Lithuania, dug by Jewish prisoners trying to escape their Nazi captors during World War II, was recently exposed by using advanced technologies.

A team of archaeologists is planning to uncover the recently discovered remains of the Great Synagogue of Vilna as a memorial to the great Jewish community of Lithuania.

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