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 ...

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 ...

As part of the “Paper Brigade,” which he formed alongside fellow poet Szmerke Kaczerginski, Sutzkever rescued literary documents from the Jewish community of Vilna, Poland, where he had been ...

Moses Beckelman arrived in Vilna in October 1939 to begin his work ... 15,000 Jews who had fled to the city from Nazi-occupied Poland. The Lithuanian Red Cross had declined to provide aid, Ms ...

A cadre of American relief workers stood in harm’s way—and bent more than a few rules—to help those who were targeted by the Nazis.

Cost is per person based on double occupancy. The price does not include your flight to Poland and home from Vilna, insurance, and suggested tips. This trip is contingent on sufficient interest and ...

But in Poland and Lithuania, they are itching to do something,” Aleksandr Lukashenko stated. “There’s another problem in Lithuania: our nationalists fled there and declared that Vilnius is the ...

After being confined to the Oszmiana ghetto in Poland, she was deported as a teen ... titles for the Yiddish partisan song written in the Vilna Ghetto by poet Hirsch Glick in 1943.

But those walks along Vilna’s many medieval alleys and narrow ... largely unrecognized heroes. Born in Krakow, Poland, Joseph Bau was a graphic artist who survived the Plaszow concentration ...