History of Sorts

This is a Substack from my good friend Grant Gochin.

On June 11, the Government of Lithuania used Holocaust Museum LA’s reopening to claim “Lithuania’s place” in Holocaust memory. The museum had been warned, in writing, about exactly this. It welcomed Lithuania anyway.

The reopening deserves praise. After a major expansion, the survivor-founded institution opened the Goldrich Cultural Center, with new galleries, theaters, gardens, and a pavilion built around an authentic Holocaust-era railcar. Its inaugural exhibition, The Beautiful Game… The Untold Story, recovers the forgotten influence of Jewish players and coaches on modern soccer. The problem is not the exhibition. It is what the museum let the Government of Lithuania do with it.

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