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Once a beacon of the Yiddish speaking world, Lithuania's Jews work to keep it alive
During that time, 95% of Lithuania’s Jews were murdered, including 70,000 Jews from the Vilnius ghetto, who were executed and ...
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Vilnius is celebrating its 700th anniversary. Lithuanian Jews are commemorating a darker one.
The organizers of Vilnius 700 stress that they are including ... march from the city’s former Jewish ghetto to Paneriai, the forest site formerly known as Ponary where the Nazis and their ...
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Fania Brantsovsky, last living Vilna ghetto partisan resistance fighter, dies at 102
From the first days of the Nazi occupation of Lithuania, they began taking Jews from Vilnius to be killed in the nearby Ponar forest. Over 100,000 people would be killed there, including 70,000 ...
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Bird watching, hiking and history: Escape to nature on a trip to Lithuania’s tranquil national parks
“Trakai is very close to Vilnius...around 25 kilometres away ... and the country's most extensive forest. This vast national park offers a diverse landscape of wetlands, inland dunes ...