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Grant Arthur Gochin

Nov 5, 2026, 4:15 AM

Lithuania’s Genocide Centre defends disputed passages as interpretation while its own book supplies the evidence against them Lithuania’s state Genocide and Resistance Research Centre published a Holocaust history that describes Lithuanian participation in Nazi murder operations as a “supporting cast...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Nov 3, 2026, 4:33 AM

LGGRTC Supplies the Alibi and VLE Makes It History

Lithuania’s encyclopedia imports the Genocide Center’s account of Noreika while omitting his persecution orders. The shared account appears in the encyclopedia’s own text. Lithuania’s national encyclopedia cites the state Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania (LGGRTC) to explain Jonas...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Oct 31, 2026, 10:45 PM

Size Still Matters: Lithuania Honors Persecutors

The speeches promise Holocaust remembrance. The honors files demand an explanation. On September 5, 2002, the United States Justice Department sought to revoke Ildefonsas Bučmys’s citizenship over his service as an armed guard at Majdanek. Eight weeks later, on October...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Oct 30, 2026, 11:19 PM

VLE Erases some Lithuanian Roles in Jewish Persecution

In Švenčionėliai, the town entry omits local actors. The ghetto entry omits the shooting squad’s Lithuanian composition. Lithuania’s national encyclopedia names Jurgis Bobelis in the order forcing Kaunas Jews into the ghetto. His biography omits the order, the battalion he...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Oct 29, 2026, 10:55 AM

Jäger Kept the Ledger. Lithuanians Filled It.

I have filed more than a hundred correction requests with Lithuanian institutions, town by town. Each filing has lengthened the list of false statements I can document. The Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania (LGGRTC) tells the public...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Oct 26, 2026, 10:25 AM

Lithuania Keeps Its False Acquittal and Tries a Jew

Lithuania’s Genocide Centre will not correct its claim that America acquitted a man whose cabinet approved a camp for Jews. On October 26, Artur Fridman is expected back in a Vilnius court over a Facebook post that prosecutors call...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Oct 24, 2026, 9:07 AM

Lithuania Had 36 Years. I Had 36 Days.

One researcher, 374 filings, and a question Lithuania’s institutions have yet to answer Between September 18 and October 22, I sent 374 distinct filings to Lithuanian institutions. Of these, 213 ask for a correction, a review, an investigation or an...

Oct 22, 2026, 10:42 PM

Two Lessons from a Getaway

Open Torah Scroll sculpture, Choral Synagogue courtyard, Kaunas (Kovna)
(photograph by Harriet Gimpel)

Four-day getaway: Vilnius, Lithuania. Unanticipated plaques surprisingly cite historic Jewish presence outside the capital too. References to Jews alongside other minorities at the capital's KGB museum. The museum, officially the Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights, exhibits dismal history and...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Oct 22, 2026, 9:29 AM

Lithuania Calls My Accusations Opinion. It Calls Fridman’s a Crime

Lithuania's Genocide Centre linked my Holocaust research to the Criminal Code in 2018, says it never sought a legal assessment, and now calls my accusations "personal subjective opinion." Lithuania's prosecutors call Fridman's accusations against a partisan hero a crime....

Grant Arthur Gochin

Oct 21, 2026, 1:53 AM

The Centre Called It a Manifestation

In June 2024, Lithuania's Genocide and Resistance Research Centre reprinted 1941 Lithuanian Activist Front texts telling Jews to leave Lithuania and directing activists, at the decisive moment, “jų turtą perimkite į savo rankas” — take their property into your...

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