Vulgarity and Belief |
On December 27, 2019, Lithuania’s national broadcaster published an interview with Birutė Burauskaitė, then director of the state Genocide and Resistance Research Centre. The title should be read slowly: Genocido centro vadovė: svarbu ne istorinis išsilavinimas, o tikėti tyrimų rezultatais. “Genocide Center Director: History Education Not Important, Believing in Research Results Is.”
Not method. Not training. Not archival discipline. Not the discipline of history.
The director of the state body charged with adjudicating Holocaust memory on Lithuanian soil told the national broadcaster that the test was whether her staff believed their own results. That was the litmus paper. Internal conviction. Faith in the product.
Six years later, that sentence explains the whole machine.
The seven articles in this series set out the record. Rule of Law, One Way showed the one-way operation of Lithuanian legality. The Predicate to the Rescuer Fraud traced how a Soviet-era rehabilitation certificate was laundered into a Holocaust exoneration. Lithuania’s Counterfeit Rule of Law showed what happened when state oversight was asked to correct state falsehood. A Director Lied on the National Broadcaster reconstructed Burauskaitė’s false claim that a court had endorsed LGGRTC methodology. Two Refusals and a Photograph placed the press-ethics refusals side by side. I Wanted the Child at the Pit to Know I Tried moved the record to Strasbourg. The Treaty Body That Will Not Adjudicate moved it to Geneva.
The Times of Israel record makes the same point in public terms: The Prosecution of Artur Fridman, The Doctrine Lithuania Never Revoked, A Question for Jewish Organizations, Why Lithuania Prosecutes a Jew for May 9, and What Lithuania’s Formula Conceals.
This is not the eighth legal brief.
The legal record is there. The documents are there. The links are there. Lithuania has answered through prosecutors, courts, state historians, deflections, refusals, and silence.
This is about what remains after the file is complete.
What is the responsibility of one Jew to the Jewish child at the pit?
I do not know how to answer that without shame. No one alive in 2026 can meet that responsibility. The child is dead. The family is dead. The town is dead. The language spoken in the street is gone. The synagogue is gone. The school is gone. The shops are gone. The cemetery is broken. The neighbors lied. The officials signed. The killers aged. The state inherited the record and learned to manage it.
Approximately 220,000 Lithuanian Jews were murdered. I do not write that as a number. I write it as bodies. Twisted bodies. Children’s bodies. Old women’s bodies. Fathers who heard their sons still crying from pits. Mothers holding babies. Young innocent girls raped in........