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Grant Arthur Gochin

Sep 4, 2026, 7:25 PM

A Ponzi Scheme of Historical Authority

LGGRTC nominated its own acting Director General, supplied his biographical case, and then circulated PEMC-labeled praise without disclosing that the nomination came from LGGRTC itself. On September 3, I published Did PEMC Check the History?. I asked who had nominated...

Sep 4, 2026, 7:16 PM

Memory Is Not a Vaccine Against Antisemitism

For the past few days, a sentence has been circulating in my inbox: If we want Holocaust education to fight antisemitism today, we must invest in teachers. I have read it several times. And each time, I find myself stopping...

Alexandre Gilbert

Sep 4, 2026, 6:32 PM

US Senate Presses UBS for More Details on Nazi-Linked Credit Suisse Accounts

UBS Building, New York City (Wikipedia CY BB 4.0)

UBS is facing renewed pressure from the United States Senate over Credit Suisse’s historical handling of accounts linked to Nazi Germany (Bloomberg), after the Senate Judiciary Committee demanded answers to dozens of additional questions and accused the Swiss lender...

Eugene J. Levin

Sep 3, 2026, 10:28 PM

PEMC May Reward the Method It Exists to Oppose

PEMC praises a nominee for preserving historical truth. The state institution he led for a full five-year term has repeatedly moved non-exonerating records toward exonerating conclusions. I do not use "Soviet" as an insult. I was born in Riga under...

Kelsey Maurine Brickl

Sep 3, 2026, 10:16 PM

The Logical Fallacies That Erase Inconvenient Holocaust Prisoners

There is a document in the Swedish archives dated June 28, 1945. It records an interrogation of my husband’s grandfather, Alois Simonič, conducted only weeks after his liberation from the Nazi concentration camp system. He was thirty-one years old. Alois...

Sep 3, 2026, 10:08 PM

Beyond 1943: Chief Rabbi Jair Melchior on the Future of Jewish Life in Denmark

Rabbi Jair Melchior, Chief Rabbi of Denmark, in Copenhagen — New York Jewish Travel Guide

In an interview with the New York Jewish Travel Guide, Denmark’s Chief Rabbi discusses Jewish identity, the next generation, antisemitism, security, and the continuing evolution of one of Europe’s most distinctive Jewish communities. For much of the world, the story...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Sep 3, 2026, 9:14 AM

Did PEMC Check the History?

The Platform of European Memory and Conscience (PEMC) says its 2026 nominee Arūnas Bubnys helps society recognize distortions of historical truth. Before PEMC members turn that claim into an international credential, they should know the record attached to his...

Hagit Zadok Fefferman

Sep 3, 2026, 5:24 AM

My grandparents told me about Auschwitz at 8; I took baths for a year

A young Hagit with her beloved grandparents, Boris and Rose.

The shiny metal showerhead was staring down at me. From where I stood, it seemed impossibly high above my eight-year-old body. Yesterday, I wouldn’t have given it a second thought. Today I stared back at it with fear. Earlier that...

Sep 2, 2026, 10:25 PM

Converging Lives in Transit: Lisbon, June of 1941

Paperwork of survival, on to Lisbon (photo courtesy of Naomi Leiseroff).

I knew the facts about Jews desperate to leave Europe in 1941, but only recently did I pull together a powerful strand of stories about four people—a world-famous artist, a Chabad rabbi, a future journalist and a teen from...

Michael Zoosman

Sep 2, 2026, 9:48 PM

A History of ‘L’chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty’: 6 Years – 5,000+ Members

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Our group, “L’chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty,” recently surged well past 5,000 members across the USA, Israel, and the world. The Israeli Knesset’s highly publicized passage of two death penalty laws earlier this year marks a significant reason...

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