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Grant Arthur Gochin

Aug 29, 2026, 10:17 AM

First Prize: 150 Rubles

In 2024 Lithuania's Genocide Centre placed Kazys Braželis in a genocide-victims register without stating the offense behind his 1962 sentence. A 1961 witness said he boasted of a 150-ruble 'first prize' for shooting people. In 2024, the Lithuanian Genocide and...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Aug 26, 2026, 8:36 PM

The Missing Rebuttal in Report No. 9R-598

Hilberg supplied the frame. Lithuania's own Commission supplied the evidence. The 2024 report does not engage either one. The Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Centre issued Report No. 9R-598, dated 25 June 2024, as a seven-page historical-archival assessment of Kazys...

Janet Bond Brill

Aug 24, 2026, 6:58 PM

Yad Vashem Called Her a Hero. It Never Called Her a Soldier.

Eighty-two years ago last week, a Jewish girl hiding in plain sight became a soldier of the Polish Home Army. The record never said her name. There is a page pasted into the front of a book my family keeps....

Kelsey Maurine Brickl

Aug 24, 2026, 11:01 AM

The Stories Nations Must Tell About Themselves

Many Israelis, or members of their families, arrived in modern Israel under terrible, complicated, or what must have felt like impossible circumstances. Tens of thousands of Teimanim, Yemenite Jews, were brought to Israel through Operation On Wings of Eagles,...

Janet Bond Brill

Aug 17, 2026, 6:57 PM

The Legacy Janusz Korczak Never Lived to See

The educator murdered at Treblinka, the child who carried his hero's name into battle, and the invisible thread between them. There is a card at the Ghetto Fighters’ House archive in Israel. Armia Krajowa. Okręg Warszawski. Home Army, Warsaw District. Number 113716, signed...

Janet Bond Brill

Aug 11, 2026, 6:24 AM

I Found My Husband’s Grandfather in the Holocaust Archives. I Was Wrong.

What one mistaken identification taught me about documents, survivor testimony, and the limits of the historical record

Kelsey Maurine Brickl

Aug 8, 2026, 12:57 AM

Trump and Netanyahu are Both Terrible, But Neither is Hitler or Voldemort

There are excellent reasons to oppose Donald Trump, and there are excellent reasons to oppose Benjamin Netanyahu. Neither case requires Adolf Hitler, and it certainly does not require Lord Voldemort. One might expect people who invoke the history of Nazi...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Aug 4, 2026, 5:58 PM

I Was Not the First to File

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Since 2015 I have filed forty-nine formal submissions with Lithuanian state bodies. Eight lawsuits and international filings. Eleven to the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre. Five criminal complaints under Article 170-2. Eleven institutional submissions. Two to the Commission of...

Eugene J. Levin

Aug 4, 2026, 5:57 AM

America Knew. Lithuania Built the Alibi.

The American archive is not Lithuania's defense. It is the evidence Lithuania hoped no one would assemble. For decades, Lithuanian political and memory institutions have survived by separating the men from the offices they held, the offices from the institutions...

Eugene J. Levin

Aug 2, 2026, 9:44 AM

The Ledger Records What They Became

How participation in Lithuania’s first killings produced units capable of murdering entire communities I was born in Riga. Most of what I know about how the Jews of the Baltic states were murdered, I learned from paperwork produced by the...

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