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Last update - 18:39 25/06/2008 Experts checking if Vilnius building constructed on Jewish cemetery By DPA Tags: Lithuania, Israel  Israeli experts Wednesday launched a 10-day research project to determine if newly constructed offices and apartments sit on an old Jewish cemetery in Lithuania's capital. Questions about the site's past have caused international controversy. Lithuanian Jews, who opposed the construction work, say the site was a 15th century cemetery. Developers dispute their claim. Protests from abroad include a letter from then-U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee p Advertisement assed a resolution in February condemning the construction on the possible cemetery site. Last year, Jews from across Europe rallied in protest outside the headquarters of European Union institutions in Brussels. The Jewish community in Vilnius - called the Jerusalem of Europe - was almost wiped in the Holocaust during the World War II, when 6 million Jews died at the hands of Germany's Nazi regime. Czarist Russian authorities shut down the cemetery in 1831 and partly built over it. In the 1950s, the Soviets built a stadium and concert hall on part of the site, allowing the remains of the Vilna Gaon, a famous 18th-century Jewish rabbi and scholar, to be removed. More Jewish World news and features Bookmark to del.icio.us   Bridging the gap A flashy addition to Jerusalem's entrance merges the old and the new. Two years later Captive soldiers' families lash out during ceremony marking Shalit's kidnapping.   1.   On the one hand, on the other hand 19:44  |  potobac 25/06/08   2.   potobacs 21:10  |  Connie 25/06/08   3.   It is OK to desecrate Jews 21:57  |  Slappy 25/06/08   4.   #2 America does not respect Native burial grounds 22:27  |  ID 25/06/08   5.   Tajikistan, Lithuania where ever it`s ok to brutalize Jews 23:09  |  Baruch Gold 25/06/08   6.   #3 Slappy - Excellent point 23:18  |  MR 25/06/08   7.   connie 2 00:48  |  potobac 26/06/08   8.   They are dead... 00:50  |  Veritas 26/06/08   9.   baruch gold 5 00:52  |  potobac 26/06/08   10.   The jews do the same to muslim cemetaries... 01:05  |  yezmar 26/06/08   11.   Jewish Cemeteries in Ukraine. 01:07  |  Gary 26/06/08   12.   connie you are full of it 01:20  |  wh 26/06/08   13.   wh 02:26  |  Connie 26/06/08   14.   Vilnius Building Site 03:28  |  Marvin 26/06/08   15.   4 ID 10 yezmar blame the USA and the Jews for crimes of others 03:51  |  Avram 26/06/08   16.   Avram- you`re kidding right? 19:11  |  yezmar 26/06/08

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