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Janet Bond Brill

Oct 9, 2026, 6:36 PM

One Mother Buried a Portrait. Another Left a Song.

There is a photograph I keep returning to. A woman holds a baby in a white gown. The child looks beyond the frame; her mother looks only at her. They are Gela Seksztajn and her daughter, Margolit. There is nothing in...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Sep 26, 2026, 8:33 PM

Lithuania Got Its Photographs. Where Are the Answers?

Source: https://www.urm.lt/naujienos/141/niujorke-ministras-k.-budrys-su-jav-zydu-organizaciju-atstovais-aptare-veiksmu-plano-kovai-su-antisemitizmu-igyvendinima:46509

Lithuania's Foreign Ministry has published another photograph with Jewish leaders. On September 23 in New York, Foreign Minister Kęstutis Budrys met representatives of what the Ministry called the “main U.S. Jewish organizations.” According to the Ministry’s account, they discussed Lithuania’s...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Sep 24, 2026, 11:44 PM

Germany Investigates at 105. Lithuania Prosecutes a Post

A German court gave Bruno Dey two years, suspended, for helping to murder 5,232 people. Lithuania’s statute exposes a Jewish citizen to up to two years in prison for a Facebook post. “Justice begins with truth,” Justice Minister Rita Tamašunienė...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Sep 24, 2026, 12:55 AM

Lithuania’s MFA Mourns Jews, Omits the Shooters

At Paneriai, the Foreign Ministry named Nazi occupation authorities while omitting the Lithuanian shooters Lithuania's own memorial identifies. It did so after being formally asked to preserve both parts of the record. On September 23, Vice-Minister Vidmantas Verbickas represented Lithuania's...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Sep 23, 2026, 5:53 AM

Lithuania’s History Problem Starts at Home

At the UN, Gitanas Nausėda made falsification of history a question of trust, human rights and democracy. Lithuania has spent years applying that standard outward. Its own state memory institution supplies the domestic test. On September 21, 2026, the Lithuanian...

Janet Bond Brill

Sep 22, 2026, 1:37 AM

Did the Carousel Turn While the Warsaw Ghetto Burned?

I went looking for a photograph to help me describe what “indifference” means, and I found a thirty-year argument instead. I had been writing about my mother-in-law, who was born at Miła 18, became a child smuggler in the Warsaw...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Sep 21, 2026, 6:58 PM

Five Lithuanian Institutions Now Have Papilė’s Names

The evidence was published. Now the municipality, encyclopedia, heritage authorities, archive and local library have been formally asked to correct, clarify or produce the record. On September 20, I published Papilė’s Stone Says ‘Helpers.’ The State’s Historian Named Them. It...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Sep 20, 2026, 1:12 AM

Systematic Falsification of History: Budrys’s Words, Lithuania’s Record

Lithuania’s foreign minister condemns manipulated history abroad. The post-independence record shows that the same argument has been fought inside Lithuania since restored independence. On September 18 in Washington, Foreign Minister Kęstutis Budrys described what Soviet rule had taught Lithuania: censorship,...

Sep 19, 2026, 10:07 AM

Antisemitism is Jew-Hatred

I often wonder if the people filled with Jew-Hatred even know what antisemitism means. It's difficult for me to understand how educated people can harbor hatred toward a religion or ethnicity. In truth, I struggle to understand any form...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Sep 18, 2026, 6:58 PM

Has Lithuania’s Revocation Been Revoked?

The Foreign Ministry invokes Vytautas as the source of Jewish rights and hospitality. The LAF revoked those rights in Vytautas’s name. No specific Lithuanian act repudiating that revocation has been identified. Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence began 2025 by again...

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