During this week of International Holocaust Remembrance, Resistance: They Fought Back, an important new Holocaust documentary ...

Remaining in Lithuania after the war, she became a keeper of the flame of the city’s once illustrious Yiddish culture. Lithuania’s Jews and Yiddishists around the world are mourning the ...

This year also marks the 80th anniversary of the liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto, once the heart of a thriving Jewish community. (JTA) — Legend has it that in the early 14th century, the grand ...

Motke Zeidel was only 17 when he was captured hiding in the Vilna Ghetto, Lithuania. He assumed that he would soon be executed but instead he was taken first to a Gestapo prison and then ...

A NAZI soldier smashes the head of Rivka, a seven-year-old girl wearing her new red dress in the Vilna ghetto in 1942. An Israeli soldier fires a shell onto a Gaza beach and kills Mohammed, an 11-year ...

Bender’s conclusion, in which she compares the history of the Białystok community and ghetto to several other major communities, including Warsaw and Vilna, makes the volume an even richer ...

Audiences will hear cabaret-style songs secretly performed in Terezín concentration camp and soulful melodies from the Vilna Ghetto. "The connection of music and the Holocaust became very ...