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Grant Arthur Gochin

Aug 11, 2026, 7:17 PM

Certain Jews: Lithuania’s Own Words

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A criminal hearing is set for August 26, 2026. Lithuania is prosecuting a Jewish citizen over Facebook speech while the state historical institution now assigned to review Holocaust exhibitions still has an unanswered Facebook record of its own. A Vilnius...

Aug 9, 2026, 6:09 PM

The Defense’s Last Witness Drew the Map

A commemorative drawing handed to me by one of my grandfather’s most devoted defenders placed him in command of the 1941 uprising in western Lithuania—and revealed what that defender chose to remember, and what he left out. In June 2013,...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Aug 9, 2026, 1:38 AM

Nazis, Soviets, and Collaborators

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Lithuania names its rescuers. It anonymizes its murderers. Thirteen years ago this week, a man died in Sutton, Massachusetts. Vladas Zajanckauskas was ninety-seven. A federal court had stripped his citizenship in 2005. An immigration judge had ordered him removed to...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Aug 5, 2026, 8:43 PM

Who Judges Lithuania’s 157 Measures?

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Lithuania’s action plan contains useful projects and measurable commitments. It still lacks an institution capable of deciding that the state itself failed. Lithuania adopted its national action plan on 21 January 2026 under the twentieth government led by Prime Minister...

Eugene J. Levin

Aug 5, 2026, 6:09 AM

IHRA Has the Record. Now It Must Decide.

In April 2019, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance warned Lithuania about its own state historical institution. The statement was not a Plenary consensus decision. But neither was it marginal. Its signature block opened with Ambassador Georges Santer, then Chair of...

Aug 4, 2026, 8:49 PM

Jews in European Art: An Albanian Portrait

The representation, caricature, and portrayal of Jews in European art is a phenomenon traceable at least to the Middle Ages. Art was frequently utilized for ideological, propagandistic, and political objectives by the Catholic and Protestant Churches, as well as...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Aug 4, 2026, 5:58 PM

I Was Not the First to File

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Since 2015 I have filed forty-nine formal submissions with Lithuanian state bodies. Eight lawsuits and international filings. Eleven to the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre. Five criminal complaints under Article 170-2. Eleven institutional submissions. Two to the Commission of...

Eugene J. Levin

Aug 4, 2026, 5:57 AM

America Knew. Lithuania Built the Alibi.

The American archive is not Lithuania's defense. It is the evidence Lithuania hoped no one would assemble. For decades, Lithuanian political and memory institutions have survived by separating the men from the offices they held, the offices from the institutions...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Aug 3, 2026, 6:40 PM

The Meaning of August 26

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Guilt, Shame, and Lithuania’s Moral Inversion Lithuania found legal guilt and imposed no punishment. It found Jewish speech and built a 220-page criminal file. On March 27, 2006, the Vilnius Regional Court found that Algimantas Mykolas Dailidė had intentionally and systematically...

Aug 3, 2026, 12:27 AM

My Grandfather’s Antisemitism Did Not Begin With the Nazis

Before Jonas Noreika signed the orders during the Nazi occupation, he had already published an antisemitic political program in 1933 My grandfather's 1933 pamphlet is public, scanned, and readable in the original. Lithuania has not revoked the state decoration it...

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