Family photos, cherished sacred books, children’s toys and many more items create a collage like portrait of Jewish ...

Nina Jacobs’ story begins in a Jewish ghetto in Vilna, Poland, shortly after the Nazi invasion. Her mother was pregnant with her, which would have meant certain death for her mother if the Nazis ...

Jewish refugees from Poland who fled to Vilna during the Polish-German War are now being registered there by the Nazis, it was learned here today. It is believed that they will be expelled to Nazi ...

LAKELAND – As the generations pass and the memories begin to fade, it will be literature and works of art by artists such as Samuel Bak that help keep the Holocaust at the forefront of ...

Vilna had become known as the Jerusalem of Eastern Europe. Vilna governance seesawed between Poland, the Russian Empire, and brief Lithuanian independences in the years prior to the second war.

The dispute over Vilna, ancient capital of Lithuania, has been, to all intents and purposes, settled by the award of that town and a part of Eastern Galicia to Poland by the Council of Ambassadors ...

IN CONCERT: VILNA: A RESISTANCE STORY a musical looking at one of 20th century history's darkest times from a new and inspiring angle. Music & Lyrics by Kevin Cloud with a book by Lisa Kenner Grissom.

His father inherited the estate of Zurov in the region of Vilna, Lithuania, and there he was born in 1863. Educated by his mother and at the University of Kharkov, Russia, he developed Socialistic ...

The complete liquidation by the Nazis of the ghetto in the city of Vilna, Poland, is reported today from Stockholm. The report quotes the Svenska Dagbladet, one of the largest Swedish newspapers ...

‘Meet’ some of the heroes who risked their lives to save Jews, sometimes strangers, during the Holocaust on the Avenue of the Righteous Among the Nations at Yad Vashem.

Samuel Bak lived through Soviet and Nazi occupations and labor camps. His art depicts “timeless themes of persecution, crisis, bigotry and war.” ...