HARRISBURG, Pa. — In Vilna, a small town just outside of Warsaw, Poland during WWII, Esther Bratt started life with a low chance of survival. “Based on her circumstances, GiGi had a 1.5 ...

INTERLOCHEN — On Sunday evening, Interlochen Arts Academy hosted the world premiere of “Echoes of Vilna,” a new two-act play about the Holocaust as it unfolded in Vilna, Lithuania ...

“Vilna: A Resistance Story” is a new musical about Vitka Kempner, a 19-year-old Jewish girl who inspired the heroic Jewish resistance movement in the Vilna ghetto during the Holocaus ...

The dispute over Vilna, ancient capital of Lithuania, has been, to all intents and purposes, settled by the award of that town and a part of Eastern Galicia to Poland by the Council of Ambassadors ...

Grade was born and raised in Vilna, a major Jewish center that was known as “the Jerusalem of Lithuania.” When the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, in June, 1941, there were some seventy ...

The Yiddish poet Chaim Grade survived World War II by fleeing his city, Vilna, now Vilnius, and wandering through the Soviet Union and its Central Asian republics. His wife and mother stayed ...

Zalgiris Vilna vs FC Struga por UEFA Champions League el 11 julio en el Vilniaus LFF stadionas: todos los detalles de la previa Žalgiris entertain Struga on Tuesday for an UEFA Champions League ...

A unique job opportunity has come up in the village of Vilna, Alta., 150 kilometres northeast of Edmonton. "We are looking for a barber right now, yes we are," said Ron Farmer, 76, president of ...

Vilna DeZayas, age 84, peacefully went to be with the Lord on Saturday, January 25, 2025. She was a loving mother to Bruno F. DeZayas and Alan DeZayas. Proud grandmother to Bruno F. DeZayas II ...

One remarkable mention of folklore from the Holocaust appears in the exhibition “Yitskhok Rudashevski: A Teenager’s Account of Life and Death in the Vilna Ghetto.” Launched in July 2024 by ...

(Ed) Well, he said tuberculosis was one of the reasons. (Albert) My father, Louis Dinner, and mother came from Vilna Gubernia, which is the southernmost province of the Ukraine. They had half ...

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 ...