In late December of 2016, at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw, the sprightly sixty-one-year-old Lithuanian journalist, writer, TV show producer, activist, and public-relations company owner ...

This year Hanukkah will run from sundown Dec. 14 to nightfall Dec. 22. In past annual columns we’ve traced the history, ...

Other great Jewish pianists, whose artistry will be heard during the recorded program, will be Vilna-born Nadia Riesenberg, ...

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 ...

The 20th anniversary of the liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto by the Nazis was marked in Poland this week, it was reported here today from Warsaw. Of the 80, 000 Jews in Vilna during the German ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — On the third floor of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Stefanie Halpern, director of archives, carefully held up a nearly century-old agricultural map of what was then Belorussia.

Yisrael Gutman, a leading Holocaust scholar, noted that before 1942, the Jewish underground in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe did not genuinely view armed resistance as an option. Why? The Jews had very ...

They hid revolvers in teddy bears, they smuggled explosives in their underwear, they flung Molotov cocktails, they bombed German supply trains, they distributed underground bulletins, and they ...