The Crime of Surviving - By arguing that Nazi and Soviet crimes are equal, Lithuania is airbrushing the Holocaust out of its history - 'Rachel Margolis may be the most tragic Holocaust survivor on the planet. She has stiff competition, to be sure, but Margolis's recent experiences are almost too surreal and painful to be believed. After the war--during which her parents and brother were murdered--Margolis decided to rebuild her life in her native city of Vilna (now Vilnius), the capital of Lithuania. For more than 40 years, she taught biology at Vilnius University. After the Soviet Union collapsed and Lithuanian democracy permitted it, she helped found the city's only Holocaust museum and became one of its stalwart presences, returning to Lithuania to lecture each summer even after relocating to Israel in the mid-1990s. Now, at 88, Margolis is being defamed as a war criminal. Her crime? Surviving the Vilna ghetto to join the anti-Nazi resistance in the forests of Lithuania...'