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The Good Will Foundation, the administrator of a public fund for compensation for Jewish communal property seized by the Nazis and the Soviets, is taking over state-owned premises in downtown Vilnius and is considering acquiring more buildings in various Lithuanian cities and towns in the future.
The Jewish Community of Lithuania is holding its annual conference in Vilnius on Monday when the Community's financial and activity reports will be approved.
Some of the members of the Jewish Community in Lithuania on Friday expressed no-confidence in Faina Kukliansky, the leader of the community whom they accused of authoritarian rule and undue use of money earmarked by the state.
The Good Will Foundation administering the state compensation for property of Jewish religious communities is considering purchase of four buildings in Lithuania, estimated at a total of over 2 million euros.
The Vilnius Sports Palace, which has been built on an old Jewish cemetery, is not an appropriate location for a Museum of Jewish History, says Andrew Baker of the American Jewish Committee.
The Lithuanian National Audit Office (NAO), which in previous years identified certain irregularities in the use of compensation funds for Jewish religious communities' immovable property, says that the latest audit of the Good Will Foundation, which administers the money, has revealed no problems.
