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 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 ...

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 ...

If you haven’t heard about the Jewish resistance fighters of Vilna during World War II, you’re not alone. Until three years ago, neither had the creators of “Vilna: A Resistance Story,” a ...

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 ...

“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 ...