Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania

The Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania ( or ''LGGRTC'') is a state-funded research institute in Lithuania dedicated to "the study of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes in Lithuania; the study of the persecution of local residents by occupying regimes; the study of armed and unarmed resistance to occupying regimes; the initiation of the legal evaluation of the activities of the organisers and implementers of genocide; and the commemoration of freedom fighters and genocide victims." The centre was founded on 25 October 1992 by the Supreme Council of the Lithuanian Republic as the "State Genocide Research Centre of Lithuania". It is a member organisation of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience. The centre has been embroiled in several controversies regarding the memory of the Holocaust in Lithuania - it is accused by several scholars and Jewish groups of whitewashing the reputation of Nazi collaborators. Provided by Wikipedia