ABSTRACT
Historians and writers of chronicles have already related the sequence of events in Lithuania during the Holocaust.1 In this chapter an attempt will be made to define the particular combination of circumstances which made the fate of Lithuanian Jewry unique. Such an attempt should, of course, take into consideration the general background of the time and place, Lithuanian Jewry being one Jewish community among many under the same Nazi occupation. Our main question here is whether this uniqueness had implications for further developments and whether it supplied lessons to be applied elsewhere, for the German authorities as well as for the Jewish communities.
