Grant Arthur Gochin is a diplomat, author, researcher, and wealth advisor whose public work focuses on historical accountability, Jewish continuity, antisemitism, and recognition doctrine.
Professionally, Gochin is a Certified Financial Planner™ and wealth advisor based in California. His career in financial services began in 1986. He holds an MBA earned with academic honors and leads Grant Arthur & Associates Wealth Services. His financial-services career is his primary profession and is separate from the public, scholarly, diplomatic, and humanitarian activities described below.
Gochin serves as Honorary Consul for the Republic of Togo and as Emeritus Dean and a Member at Large of the Executive Committee of the Los Angeles Consular Corps. From 2018 to 2020, he served as Special Envoy for Diaspora Affairs with the African Union Mission to the United States.
He also serves, in a voluntary, unremunerated and non-executive capacity, as Advisor on Recognition Doctrine and Sovereignty to the Mthwakazi Republic Party, Office of the President. His work there concerns international recognition, sovereignty, state continuity, comparative precedent, and remedial self-determination.
His philanthropic work in Togo led to his investiture as Chief of the Village of Babade.
For several decades, Gochin has researched Holocaust history, Jewish heritage, and historical memory in Lithuania. He served as Chair of the Maceva Project, working on the documentation, preservation, and restoration of abandoned and neglected Jewish cemeteries. His archival research, litigation, and public advocacy have focused particularly on the treatment of Holocaust perpetrators and collaborators in Lithuanian state memory and on documented instances of Holocaust distortion by state institutions.
He is the author of Malice, Murder and Manipulation (2013), which traces the destruction of his family in Lithuania and examines subsequent historical distortion. His writing addresses antisemitism, Holocaust memory, governmental misinformation, Israel’s legitimacy and security, and the political use of historical narratives.
Gochin created The Lithuania Project, a public documentary archive bringing together primary historical evidence, institutional records, legal proceedings, corrections, source provenance, and the evolving public record concerning Holocaust memory and historical accountability in Lithuania.
Gochin is a PhD candidate in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Gratz College. His dissertation, Recognition Without Reckoning: Sovereignty, Continuity, and the Architecture of Historical Evasion, examines institutional responses to documented claims concerning Holocaust memory, historical accountability, and post-genocide historical revisionism.
Unless expressly stated otherwise, Gochin’s published views are his own and do not represent the positions of any government or institution with which he is or has been associated.
He lives in Los Angeles with his husband, son, and dog, Kelev.
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