On January 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Dr. Arūnas Bubnys, Director General of the Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Center (LGGRTC), stood at the Tuskulėnai Memorial and spoke about the Holocaust.

This was not remembrance.
It was Holocaust denial enacted as state ceremony.

Tuskulėnai is not a neutral site of mourning. It is a state-administered memorial that deliberately collapses perpetrators and victims into a single undifferentiated category of “repression victims.” Among those buried and memorialized are Nazi collaborators and Holocaust perpetrators, whose identities and actions are systematically suppressed in order to preserve a sanitized national narrative. The erasure is intentional. The function is laundering.

To speak about Jewish victims from a podium erected over the memorialized remains of their killers is not commemoration. It is Holocaust inversion: the forced moral equivalence of murderer and murdered, enacted in stone, ritual, and speech.

This is not symbolic harm. It is coercive harm.

Jews are compelled—by state action—to witness their dead folded into a narrative that strips agency from the crime and dignity from its victims. The murdered are posthumously........

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