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Grant Arthur Gochin

Jun 3, 2026, 8:23 PM

The Ministry of Memory

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Why I petitioned IHRA to review Lithuania’s membership Orwell gave his invented tyranny a Ministry of Truth, and gave the Ministry a single task: keep the record obedient to the state. Facts that embarrassed power were dropped into what he...

May 28, 2026, 8:45 PM

What Lithuania Did with the Signature

My grandfather signed orders connected to the ghettoization, expropriation, and liquidation of Jewish property in Nazi-occupied Lithuania. The Lithuanian state preserved those documents in its own archive. In 2019, IHRA experts warned Lithuania about the official effort to reinterpret...

Eugene J. Levin

May 28, 2026, 6:25 AM

The Witness IHRA Already Warned About

Lithuania’s state historical institution cannot credibly serve as clean historical authority in the Fridman prosecution after IHRA’s own experts publicly warned about its method. The contradiction is now evidentiary, not rhetorical. The Republic of Lithuania utilizes the diplomatic credential of...

May 27, 2026, 11:55 PM

The Questions IHRA Must Ask Lithuania

ICAN asked Lithuania twelve questions on March 17, 2026. Lithuania answered eight. The four it avoided are the questions that decide whether the Republic of Lithuania is engaged in Holocaust remembrance or in the diplomatic management of Holocaust history. I...

Grant Arthur Gochin

May 27, 2026, 10:05 PM

IHRA Was Warned in 2019. Lithuania Did Not Cure.

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In April 2019, the chairs and recent chairs of the expert working groups and committees of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance issued a statement of grave concern about a single Member Country. They named the institution. They named the...

Grant Arthur Gochin

May 26, 2026, 8:17 PM

The Conversion Document

Artur Fridman - source: personal archive (republished with permission)

Lithuania began restraining Artur Fridman before it indicted him. The January 8 written pledge is the operative document. Lithuania did not wait for trial to punish Artur Fridman. On January 8, 2025, nine and a half months before the Vilnius...

Grant Arthur Gochin

May 25, 2026, 8:00 PM

Germany Convicted Him. Lithuania Did Not.

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What Lithuania Means When It Says Jews “Vanished,” “Lost,” or “Perished” and Lost Herrings examined Lithuania’s vocabulary: Jews “vanished,” “perished,” or were “lost,” as if no one registered them, robbed them, beat them, marched them, shot them, or buried...

Eugene J. Levin

May 25, 2026, 11:38 AM

The S-424 Boomerang

Lithuania used a public-person ruling to weaken a Jewish critic. In the Fridman case, the same ruling makes the state’s witness harder to protect. Lithuania built a legal position for one purpose. It now has to live with the recoil. On...

May 25, 2026, 7:29 AM

Lithuania Answered Eight Questions. It Ignored the Four That Matter.

I am publishing this because I have now spent the better part of a decade dealing with Lithuania on Holocaust memory, historical accountability, and the ongoing prosecution of those who challenge state-sanctioned myth. After that decade, I have complete...

Grant Arthur Gochin

May 24, 2026, 6:41 PM

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A short companion to “What Lithuania Means When It Says ‘Vanished,’ ‘Lost,’ or ‘Perished’” Full article: Survivors of the Seventh Fort in Kaunas said the Jews imprisoned there felt like herrings in a barrel. The phrase was not metaphor enough. Jewish...

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