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Grant Arthur Gochin

Jul 19, 2026, 2:12 AM

The Lithuanian Ratline to Los Angeles

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How Holocaust collaborators remade themselves as anti-Communist refugees, used the Lithuanian émigré community as cover, and walked into the American establishment. Stasys Žakevičius died peacefully in Los Angeles in 1973. Seven years earlier a federal court in the same city...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Jul 17, 2026, 5:56 AM

The Verdict America Never Issued

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In The Kremlin Method, Practiced in Vilnius, I described a Lithuanian state institution that behaves less like a research body than an information-war unit: the conclusion is protected, unwelcome evidence is treated as hostile material, and the person carrying...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Jul 16, 2026, 4:53 AM

The Kremlin Method, Practiced in Vilnius

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Lithuania's Genocide Centre defends claims it knows to be false, answers evidence by designating the people who carry it, and has adopted the technique it condemns in Moscow. Lithuania is right about Russia. The Kremlin chooses its conclusion first and...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Jul 9, 2026, 7:04 AM

Endless Capacity for Reconciliation

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The Gochin-Foti model, and the Lithuanian state that chose fraud Jews do not believe in inherited guilt. A grandchild does not carry the crimes of a grandfather. Each person answers for what he himself does, and for nothing his blood...

Eugene J. Levin

Jun 27, 2026, 12:17 PM

How Propaganda Chooses the Date

A government does not need to deny a murder. It only needs to choose where the calendar begins and where it ends

Grant Arthur Gochin

Jun 25, 2026, 10:13 PM

An Aliyah to the Torah and Tears of Joy

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From Papilė to Zurich, l’dor v’dor Nearly fifty years ago, on November 13, 1976, my grandfather Samuel Gochin was called to the Torah at my bar mitzvah in South Africa. He was 75 years old. Next weekend, in Zurich, I will...

Eugene J. Levin

Jun 23, 2026, 11:26 AM

VALKININKAI, CHAPTER IV

The Safer Place Was German-Controlled Leyzer Goldman’s escape route ran out of Lithuanian-administered space and into a Nazi-administered town. Earlier in this series: Carts, Sacks, and Certificates; There Were No Germans in Town; and Valkininkai, Chapter III: Rosh Hashanah Road to...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Jun 23, 2026, 5:18 AM

A Letter to Elisabeth

Lietukis Garage pogrom - Source: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/photo/aftermath-of-a-massacre-at-lietukis-garage-in-kovno

A Wehrmacht soldier described the Kaunas killings to his wife four days into the occupation. It was not testimony. That is why it counts. On June 29, 1941, a German soldier sat in the driver's seat of his car in...

Eugene J. Levin

Jun 22, 2026, 7:33 AM

Valkininkai, Chapter III

Rosh Hashanah Road to Eišiškės Subtitle: The third Valkininkai chapter follows the calendar, from forced labor on Shabbat to the removal of women and children on Rosh Hashanah. Earlier in this series: Carts, Sacks, and Certificates and There Were No Germans...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Jun 22, 2026, 5:47 AM

Afrophobia Must Be Named

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I was born in South Africa. Africa is not a cause I adopted or a vocabulary I picked up in a seminar. It is the ground I come from, and the place where my family chose a side. My aunt,...

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