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 ...

Holocaust survivor and Boston University alumnus Sidney Handler recounted his experiences living and struggling to survive in Poland during Nazi occupation during World War II in a lecture on ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — In Vilna, a small town just outside of Warsaw, Poland during WWII, Esther Bratt started life with a low chance of survival. “Based on her circumstances, GiGi had a 1.5 ...

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 ...

Since then, in Poland alone, many individuals, institutions, and grassroots organizations have undertaken efforts to confront the complex histories of the Holocaust and the role played by Poles.

Poland invented and shaped Ashkenazic Jewish culture. The largest percentage of Jews in the world lived here in Poland until 1939. You cannot tell the story of the Jews without Poland.

Fania Brantsovsky, the last survivor of the Vilna ghetto and a Yiddish culture advocate, died at 102, mourning a rich Jewish past. Vilnius, Lithuania (photo credit: INGIMAGE) By DAVID I. KLEIN/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 flame ...