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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...

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...

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...

Sep 1, 2026, 12:56 AM

My Grandfather Went to Stutthof: That Doesn’t Erase What He Did to Jews

For decades, Lithuania has pointed to my grandfather Jonas Noreika's imprisonment at the Nazi concentration camp Stutthof as proof that he was an anti-Nazi hero. The story is emotionally powerful: the Nazis arrested him, deported him and imprisoned him....

Grant Arthur Gochin

Aug 31, 2026, 7:08 PM

Lithuania Corrected One Word. Now It Has No Excuse

The Genocide Centre’s 26 August edit does more than expose one false historical claim. It proves that Lithuania’s state history can be corrected when the institution chooses to correct it. On 26 August 2026, the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre...

Eugene J. Levin

Aug 31, 2026, 7:04 AM

When Lithuania Was the Minority

There is a file in the League of Nations archive that complicates the usual argument about Lithuania and minority rights. In 1921, Lithuania itself went to Geneva asking for international protection of a vulnerable minority. The minority was Lithuanian. Vilna...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Aug 30, 2026, 3:00 PM

Six A.M. on Rosh Hashanah

Order No. 9 is dated September 19, 1941. Across the top: “Urgent - Secret.” Br. Draugelis, head of the Vilnius district, sent it to the district’s civil parish heads and the mayor of Naujoji Vilnia, with police station commanders...

Eugene J. Levin

Aug 30, 2026, 4:22 AM

Palanga’s Jews Asked for Latvia

Akniste, Palanga, and the border settlement Lithuania remembers without the Jewish objection Akniste is not an abstract place to me. My grandfathers family was murdered there. That is why a border settlement signed more than a century ago does not...

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...

Eugene J. Levin

Aug 28, 2026, 6:26 AM

Vilnius Street 260

A cupboard. A pair of warm boots. A desk. A bookshelf. Two wooden beds with mattresses. A wardrobe. A buffet. A mirror. Two bedside tables. Rūta Vanagaitė found the list in the Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. It...

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