From: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]> To: Subject: Re: Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 19:20:20 +0000 Just kidding my grandparents are from Lithuania On Sunday, September 22, 2013, Dear Mr.Jeffrey, wrote: I would like to thank you once again for your generosity, for being so nice to me and for all the great things you do for the Art. Without people like you there is no way the Art can stay alive. In all ages artists were supported by aristocrats and intellectuals and that' s the only reason the world has so much beauty in it. Thank you really very much for all the support you give me. All my family and me are extremely grateful to you for being so generous. If you don't mind, I would be very happy to mention you during my concert in December in Lithuanian Philharmonic on my sponsors list as one of my great supporters. All the best wishes, P.S. I want to ask you to stop thinking that Lithuanians hate Jewish people! Before the second world war, when our country was still independent, the Jewish community in Lithuania was a part of our country, they were citizens and residents of equal rights and the government was favorable to them. Unfortunately, after the occupation by Soviet Union and later invasion of Germany, the conditions to Jewish people became horrifying. But once again, it is not Lithuania that was destroying Jewish community and you should know that some Lithuanians even risked their own lives to save Jews. We were not an independent country anymore and it was not the Lithuanian government that was leading our country. Besides, Jews and Lithuanians have even something in common- Jews had genocide, while Lithuanians had massive deportations and tens of thousands of Lithuanian families were exiled to Siberia and other part of Soviet Union far in North. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Lithuania) My grandmothers family risked to be deported to Siberia as well and she remained in Lithuania only by miracle. My grandmother had a best f