Only after I had completed my first draft of the book did I finally make my way to Lithuania and Vilna (now Vilnius), the capital of Lithuania during its brief moment of independence in the ...

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 ...

This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. For hundreds of years, books played a powerful role in the lives of Vilna’s Jews. The city was home to the two most influential ...

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 ...

More than three-quarters of the 80,000 Jews who remained in Vilna under Nazi occupation were executed last month in a mass-slaughter which has no equal in Jewish history, according to an eye ...

(A Tel Avid dispatch to the JTA today reported that Israeli police have taken depositions from 14 survivors of the Vilna ghetto, implicating Murer in the annihilation of the Jews there. Dr. Josef ...

Recent archaeological excavations of the Great Synagogue of Vilna have unearthed significant findings that shed light on both its grandeur and its destruction. Built in the 17th century ...

“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 ...

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 ...