Grant Arthur Gochin

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Jonas Noreika - courtesy Grant Gochin
Jonas Noreika - courtesy Grant Gochin

Hamodia, the largest Orthodox Jewish newspaper in America catering to Torah Jewry, first reported disturbing truths about a Lithuanian hero, Jonas Noreika, on Monday, August 6, 2018. On April 20, 2023, they reported again about Noreika. The second article focused on a Jewish day school whose students demonstrated outside the Lithuanian Consulate in New York. The students were protesting Lithuania’s rampant re-writing of Holocaust history, and Lithuania’s hero worshiping of Holocaust perpetrators.

The head of the school was invited into the Consulate. Hamodia reports: “During the meeting, the Lithuanians advocated for the heroic stature they bestow on Jonas Noreika, saying that Lithuanian courts proclaimed him innocent”. This representation by Lithuanian government officials is a complete lie. The courts did no such thing.

Hamodia, the largest Orthodox Jewish newspaper in USA catering to Torah Jewry

One individual who viewed the Holocaust documentary, J’Accuse! wrote:

“”Thank you for sharing this very important film with us.

As I mentioned on Tuesday, in 20XX I was invited to the Lithuanian Embassy in Washington to teach about Chanukah and to lead music with the families of the embassy staff. I was told, more than once, that Lithuania deplored what happened to the Jews during the Holocaust and their heritage was a precious part of the Lithuanian culture.

This film upends all of that, and rightfully so.
The entire program in which I participated is an example of Lithuania’s attempt to whitewash its active participation in the murder of Jews and the glorification of the perpetrators. 

I feel a bit exploited and I am not a person who ignores such things.”

i.e. Lithuania’s continual propaganda to Jews is also a contemptible lie. They have developed a sophisticated program to subvert Jewish ethics.

Lithuanian diplomats are accustomed to deceiving the world about Jewish and Holocaust issues. The US Congress has urged Lithuania to stop lying about the Holocaust, and to stop misusing Congressional documents for Holocaust revisionism.

Every request or demand for truth has been rejected by the government of Lithuania. Lithuania’s diplomats cannot be trusted. A litmus test prerequisite for any conversation with a Lithuanian diplomat should be: “Was Jonas Noreika a Holocaust perpetrator?.” The only response should be a resounding “YES”. If the Lithuanian government representative responds with anything other than this one word answer, they are committing Holocaust revisionism. Any person who elects to continue the conversation, is condoning Holocaust revisionism.

Lithuania continues to seek Jews to appoint as their Honorary Consuls. These are their shills. However, this also presents us with an opportunity to ask these Lithuanian diplomats the question directly. Email them and ask one simple question: “Was Jonas Noreika a Holocaust perpetrator?.” The answer is uncomplicated and monosyllabic. Anything other than “yes” is deflection or dishonesty. Get Lithuania’s representatives on record.

Brazil – Carlos Levenstein – carlos.levenstein@gmail.com

Mexico – Ronen Waisser Landau – consul@consuladolituaniamex.org

South Africa – Paul Raymond Berman – paul@bermanbros.co.za

South Africa – Raymond Joffe – raymond@rjalaw.co.za

USA – Daiva Valerija Navarette – daivanmail@gmail.com

 

A one word litmus test. Ask the question – every time.

About the Author
Grant Arthur Gochin is a diplomat, author, researcher, and wealth advisor whose public work focuses on historical accountability, Jewish continuity, antisemitism, and recognition doctrine. He serves as Honorary Consul for the Republic of Togo and as Emeritus Dean and a Member at Large of the Executive Committee of the Los Angeles Consular Corps. From 2018 to 2020, he served as Special Envoy for Diaspora Affairs with the African Union Mission to the United States. Gochin also serves, in a voluntary, unremunerated and non-executive capacity, as Advisor on Recognition Doctrine and Sovereignty to the Mthwakazi Republic Party, Office of the President. His work there concerns international recognition, sovereignty, state continuity, comparative precedent and remedial self-determination. Unless expressly stated otherwise, his published views are his own and do not represent the positions of any government or institution with which he is or has been associated. His philanthropic work in Togo led to his investiture as Chief of the Village of Babade. For several decades, Gochin has researched Holocaust history, Jewish heritage and historical memory in Lithuania. He served as Chair of the Maceva Project, working on the documentation, preservation and restoration of abandoned and neglected Jewish cemeteries. His archival research, litigation and public advocacy have focused particularly on the treatment of Holocaust perpetrators and collaborators in Lithuanian state memory and on documented instances of Holocaust distortion by state institutions. He is the author of Malice, Murder and Manipulation (2013), which traces the destruction of his family in Lithuania and examines subsequent historical distortion. His writing regularly addresses antisemitism, Holocaust memory, governmental misinformation, Israel’s legitimacy and security, and the political use of historical narratives. Gochin is a PhD candidate in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Gratz College. His research examines institutional responses to documented claims concerning Holocaust memory, historical accountability and post-genocide historical revisionism. Professionally, Gochin is a Certified Financial Planner™ and wealth advisor based in California. He holds an MBA earned with academic honors and leads Grant Arthur & Associates Wealth Services. He lives in Los Angeles with his husband, son, and dog, Kelev. www.grantgochin.com
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