In the Vilna Ghetto, amid unspeakable suffering, Jewish prisoners sang a Yiddish song called “Vilna,” expressing their deep love for the Lithuanian city that Jews had called home for at least 600 ...

(JNS) Excavations of the Great Synagogue of Vilna, Lithuania, destroyed by the Nazis during the Holocaust, have revealed the floor of the main prayer hall, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced ...

(JTA) — A new excavation has unearthed parts of the Great Synagogue of Vilna, once the oldest and most important building for Lithuanian Jews before it was destroyed by the Nazis and razed by the ...

In an online exhibition, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will explore the account of Yitskhok Rudashevski. He was 13 when the Germans took over Vilnius, Lithuania. By Joseph Berger It has not ...

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 ...

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 ...

(JTA) — Legend has it that in the early 14th century, the grand duke of Lithuania set out on a hunting trip. One night, he dreamt of an enormous iron wolf, which a priest would later tell him was a ...

INTERLOCHEN — On Sunday evening, Interlochen Arts Academy hosted the world premiere of “Echoes of Vilna,” a new two-act play about the Holocaust as it unfolded in Vilna, Lithuania, during the 1940s.