Nazi persecutions. In 2001–2001, the centre handled some 22,000 applications for compensation from the Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future". The centre operates the Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights in the former prison of KGB in Vilnius and memorial at the Tuskulėnai Manor. Prior to 2018 the museum was known as "the Museum of Genocide Victims" reflecting a broadened definition of the term "genocide" used by the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre, even though only a few historians consider these events a genocide. Only a small part of the museum space, a small room added in 2011 following international criticism, is devoted to the Holocaust in Lithuania, the event that is universally considered a genocide. In 2018, the museum was renamed to the Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights. In 1999–2002, the centre was involved in legal proceedings regarding Nachman Dushanski, an Israeli citizen. In 2007 the head of the Genocide Center at the time, Arvydas Anusauskas, initiated a criminal investigation against Holocaust survivor Yitzhak Arad who headed The International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania. The investigation, which derailed the work of the international commission whose members resigned in protest, was viewed internationally as a "contemptible farce", an attempt to erase Lithuanian's history of collaboration with the Nazis, and victim blaming, particularly due to the lack of prosecution of the many Lithuanian Nazi collaborators. Directors The centre's director is nominated by the Prime Minister of Lithuania and confirmed by the Seimas (Lithuanian parliament). On 26 November 1992 Juozas Starkauskas was approved by the Lithuanian government to be the acting head of the centre. On 17 February 1994 the Seimas appointed Vytautas Skuodis general director of the reorganized centre. On 18 February 1997 Dalia Kuodytė was appointed general director. In 2009, the Seimas confirmed Birutė Burauskaitė, a dissident of long standing, as the Center's director. See also International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania References External links Official website Defending History- The Genocide and Research Center of Lithuania Research institutes established in 1992 Research institutes in Lithuania History institutes Commemoration of communist crimes Organizations based in Vilnius Platform of European Memory and Conscience Holocaust studies