The online exhibit tells the story of Yitskhok Rudashevski, who documented his life in the ghetto from 1941 to 1943. Growing up in Vilna in the 1930s, Yitskhok Rudashevski was a typical 13-year-old ...

After being published in August 2023 in Israel by Yad Vashem, “Written in a Barn: The Diary of a Young Woman from Vilna,” is finally available in the United States on the Amazon website. It is also ...

(JTA) — Lithuania’s Jews and Yiddishists around the world are mourning the passing of Fania Brantsovsky, the last surviving member of the Jewish underground in the Vilna ghetto and a keeper of the ...

“Vilna: A Resistance Story” shares the little-known story of the heroic Jewish resistance movement in the Vilna Ghetto during World War II and the Nazi occupation. A musical of heroic resistance and ...

When technology and storytelling converge, an online exhibition can create deeply immersive, accessible and educational experiences Karolina Ziulkoski Photo of Yitskhok Rudashevski in the 1930s.

LOS ANGELES — In Jonas Kulikauskas’s black and white photographs, the peaceful streets of Vilnius, Lithuania, hide a dark secret. The cobblestones trace the footprint of the Vilna Ghetto, where nearly ...

Representatives of the surviving Jews of Vilna attending a world meeting of Vilna Jews here, have demanded the re-trial of Franz Murer, the Nazi wartime Gauleiter of the Vilna ghetto whose first trial ...

rebellious teenage girl and a young poet - from the Vilna ghetto of Lithuania. A special concert version will be presented on Monday, October 16 at 7:00 p.m. at GREEN ROOM 42, Located in: YOTEL New ...

The appearance of the literary master Abraham Sutzkever’s “Vilna Ghetto” in English is like a bomb detonating in the language of William Shakespeare, John Milton, and Saul Bellow. This translation by ...

This authoritative, stunningly edited edition of Kruk's acclaimed journals, news postings and poems of life and death in the Jewish ghetto of Vilna and later in a labor camp in Estonia is as major ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- “We were ordered to evacuate Ostroleka,” said West Brighton resident Chaim Ben-Aron, explaining how the Nazis forced him and other residents to leave their hometown in Poland in ...

Jan T. Gross is the author of "Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland." Real treasures, as we all know, lie buried. Herman Kruk’s diary is a case in point. This seminal ...