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Grant Arthur Gochin

Oct 16, 2026, 8:33 PM

Lithuania Has Promised the Truth for Thirty Years

Presidents, prime ministers and foreign ministers have vowed to face the Holocaust. The state they lead still honors the man who signed the orders. If they will not tell the truth about the murder of their own citizens, what...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Oct 15, 2026, 11:03 PM

Exactly Her Size

The Lithuanian Gunman Who Offered to Choose a Jewish Woman for Her Clothes At Ponary, Lithuanian riflemen divided and sold the possessions of murdered Jews. One offered to select a living Jewish woman to fit a customer's wife. Lithuania's Foreign...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Oct 13, 2026, 8:03 PM

Lithuania Told Congress It Fixed the Lie

On May 12, 2026, Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote in a letter to Congressman Brad Sherman, relying, in its own words, on “information supplied by” Lithuania’s Genocide and Resistance Research Centre (LGGRTC). The Ministry reported that the Centre...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Oct 13, 2026, 12:02 AM

Lithuania Never Judged Lileikis

An American federal court tested the archival record, accepted its authentication, and stripped him of citizenship. Lithuania got the man, the evidence, and criminal procedure rewritten to keep the case alive. It still never delivered a verdict. Aleksandras Lileikis, chief...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Oct 11, 2026, 1:07 AM

The Genocide Centre’s Credibility Collapse

Ten Lithuanian state bodies now have the evidence. A 105-event audit is public. PRISMA makes the credibility problem European.

Grant Arthur Gochin

Oct 10, 2026, 1:37 AM

IHRA Has No Outside Door. Lithuania Locked the Inside One.

Lithuania’s Foreign Ministry refused my request that its own IHRA delegation carry documented challenges to Lithuania’s Holocaust record into the Alliance. It relied in part on copies I had sent directly to IHRA, after IHRA had already told me...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Oct 6, 2026, 8:00 PM

My Shtetl Chose the Truth

Papilė corrected its Holocaust record. That simple act shows Lithuania what reconciliation could look like. In the Jewish cemetery of Papilė, there is a stone with one word on it: GOCHIN. I placed it there to memorialize the Gochins buried...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Oct 5, 2026, 8:19 AM

Funhouse Mirrors

Lithuania’s Genocide Centre never examined the judgment it used to defend a Holocaust collaborator. Now it is a European partner teaching source criticism. Vladimir Putin justified his invasion of Ukraine by claiming to protect people from genocide. On 16 March...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Oct 3, 2026, 10:57 AM

157 Measures, No Credibility

LGGRTC says it has still not examined the Lübeck judgment behind its “completely acquitted” claim. Lithuania’s antisemitism plan nevertheless gives the Centre new Holocaust-memory authority, while Jewish institutions engaging the plan have yet to show the public their due...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Oct 2, 2026, 9:52 AM

Lithuania Enforces History Against a Jew. Show the Sources.

On October 26, Artur Fridman is scheduled to return to the Vilnius City District Court under two historical-memory charges: Article 170² §1 and Article 313 §2 of Lithuania’s Criminal Code. Fridman is innocent, and the prosecution against him is...

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