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Grant Arthur Gochin

Sep 25, 2026, 5:56 PM

Seimas Sets the Rule. Lithuania Faces the Record

On September 24, 2026, Lithuania’s Parliament adopted Resolution No. XV-1203 on the 85th anniversary of the beginning of the Holocaust in Lithuania. The vote was 110–0–0. The resolution calls on public life not to tolerate antisemitism, Holocaust denial or...

Eugene J. Levin

Sep 25, 2026, 5:45 AM

Vilna Ghetto II on Shemini Atzeret? The Date Does Not Hold

Yad Vashem’s Vilna exhibition and a Vilna memorial association place a 3,000-person Aktion on Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah. Yad Vashem’s own ghetto encyclopedia dates the relevant liquidation action to October 15–16, after the holiday; Pinkas Hakehillot gives the...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Sep 24, 2026, 11:44 PM

Germany Investigates at 105. Lithuania Prosecutes a Post

A German court gave Bruno Dey two years, suspended, for helping to murder 5,232 people. Lithuania’s statute exposes a Jewish citizen to up to two years in prison for a Facebook post. “Justice begins with truth,” Justice Minister Rita Tamašunienė...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Sep 24, 2026, 12:55 AM

Lithuania’s MFA Mourns Jews, Omits the Shooters

At Paneriai, the Foreign Ministry named Nazi occupation authorities while omitting the Lithuanian shooters Lithuania's own memorial identifies. It did so after being formally asked to preserve both parts of the record. On September 23, Vice-Minister Vidmantas Verbickas represented Lithuania's...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Sep 23, 2026, 5:53 AM

Lithuania’s History Problem Starts at Home

At the UN, Gitanas Nausėda made falsification of history a question of trust, human rights and democracy. Lithuania has spent years applying that standard outward. Its own state memory institution supplies the domestic test. On September 21, 2026, the Lithuanian...

Eugene J. Levin

Sep 21, 2026, 7:37 PM

Moonlight at Ponary

Lithuania can name Ponary’s killers. On the eve of its 2026 national commemoration, the Ministry of Culture still writes “local helpers.” On September 18, Lithuania’s Ministry of Culture published its invitation to the official September 23 ceremony at the Paneriai...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Sep 21, 2026, 6:58 PM

Five Lithuanian Institutions Now Have Papilė’s Names

The evidence was published. Now the municipality, encyclopedia, heritage authorities, archive and local library have been formally asked to correct, clarify or produce the record. On September 20, I published Papilė’s Stone Says ‘Helpers.’ The State’s Historian Named Them. It...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Sep 20, 2026, 1:12 AM

Systematic Falsification of History: Budrys’s Words, Lithuania’s Record

Lithuania’s foreign minister condemns manipulated history abroad. The post-independence record shows that the same argument has been fought inside Lithuania since restored independence. On September 18 in Washington, Foreign Minister Kęstutis Budrys described what Soviet rule had taught Lithuania: censorship,...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Sep 18, 2026, 6:58 PM

Has Lithuania’s Revocation Been Revoked?

The Foreign Ministry invokes Vytautas as the source of Jewish rights and hospitality. The LAF revoked those rights in Vytautas’s name. No specific Lithuanian act repudiating that revocation has been identified. Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence began 2025 by again...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Sep 17, 2026, 8:13 PM

The Semeliškės Police Vanish From the Town Page

On the first day of Sukkot 1941, 962 Jews were murdered. Lithuania's National Library names the local police who marched them to the pit on one page and omits them on another. On October 6, 1941, 962 Jews were murdered...

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