During this week of International Holocaust Remembrance, Resistance: They Fought Back, an important new Holocaust documentary is on PBS. A discussion I led is on YouTube ...

Right here, right behind me, is where the gate to the Vilna Ghetto stood. The members of the Paper Brigade had to pass through this gate daily. They had books packed underneath their clothing ...

Baran and her two adult daughters sing “Mir Zaynen Do,” one of many titles for the Yiddish partisan song written in the Vilna Ghetto by poet Hirsch Glick in 1943. Sunday will be the first time ...

That creates risks: the Holocaust didn’t begin with mass murder. The dehumanization of Jews progressed gradually from public exclusion to eventual internment to finally extermination. Millions of ...

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 ...

Sutzkever rescued literary documents from the Jewish community of Vilna, Poland, where he had been imprisoned in the ghetto. After the war, these archives were donated to the YIVO Institute for ...

"Vilna is not just Vilna ... "All those who were taken away from the ghetto never came back." It is a call to the population that was left not to foster illusions. Those who went out of the ...

Over the last few years, he co-edited two books: The Traces of Crimes Do Not Disappear: Mass Killings in the Paneriai Forest, 1941-1944 (with Saulius Sarcevičius) and Zelig Kalmanovich Hope is ...