This year also marks the 80th anniversary of the liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto, once the heart of a thriving Jewish community. (JTA) — Legend has it that in the early 14th century, the grand ...

Remaining in Lithuania after the war, she became a keeper of the flame of the city’s once illustrious Yiddish culture. Lithuania’s Jews and Yiddishists around the world are mourning the ...

It recounts the untold tale of the moral dilemma facing the Jewish youth who organized an underground resistance in the Vilna Ghetto, and fought as partisans in the woods against the nazis. This film ...

Motke Zeidel was only 17 when he was captured hiding in the Vilna Ghetto, Lithuania. He assumed that he would soon be executed but instead he was taken first to a Gestapo prison and then ...

Bender’s conclusion, in which she compares the history of the Białystok community and ghetto to several other major communities, including Warsaw and Vilna, makes the volume an even richer ...