On Passover, Jews recite Dayenu — a hymn of cumulative gratitude. Had God only brought us out of Egypt but not split the sea, it would have been enough. Had God only split the sea but not sustained us in the desert, it would have been enough. Each act of divine intervention is declared independently sufficient. The hymn escalates through fifteen stages, and at each stage the congregation affirms: dayenu — it would have been enough.

The structure of Dayenu is not ornamental. It is logical. It teaches that the case for gratitude does not depend on any single act. Each act alone meets the threshold. The accumulation is not required to make the argument. It is required to make the argument undeniable.

That same logic applies in reverse.

What follows is a factual recitation of Lithuanian state conduct regarding the Holocaust and its memory. Each item, standing alone, would be sufficient to demonstrate institutional falsification. Together, they form a pattern so consistent, so sustained, and so well-documented that denial requires either ignorance or complicity.

This is addressed to Lithuanian readers as much as to Jewish ones. Lithuanians who encounter this list should ask a simple question at each stage: if this single item were the only thing Lithuania had done, would it be defensible? If the answer is no at any point, then the accumulation is not a matter of interpretation. It is a matter of record.

Lithuania replaced the word “murdered” with “perished” and “lost” in its official treatment of the Holocaust.

Lithuania renamed its perpetrators “collaborators,” a term that assigns primary agency to Germany and reduces Lithuanian killers........

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