Lauckaite did not grow up fully aware of her city’s Jewish history while a schoolgirl during the Soviet years near where the Great Synagogue of Vilna once stood. Soviet authorities had razed the ...

the last surviving member of the Jewish underground in the Vilna ghetto and a keeper of the flame of the city’s once glorious Yiddish past, who died at the age of 102 on Sunday in Vilnius.

Vilna's pool hall was a place for men to socialize ... school groups and tourists from the city. "They think it's great," said the 61-year-old. "They have a game of pool for two bucks per ...