Members of Lithuania’s Jewish community are calling for the preservation of the old Šnipiškės Jewish cemetery in Vilnius, opposing government plans to establish a memorial at the site of the former Concert and Sports Palace.
Rabbi Sholom Krinsky, a representative of the Chabad Lubavitch Jewish organisation in Lithuania, argued that the site should not be referred to as a "former cemetery" because thousands of people remain buried there.
"It is the former Vilnius Concert and Sports Palace. Former. But it is not a former cemetery; it is an existing cemetery," Krinsky told a press conference.
