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Vilnius is celebrating its 700th anniversary. Lithuanian Jews are commemorating a darker one.
Whether or not the origin story is true, it’s uncontested that the present-day Lithuanian capital Vilnius was first referred to by its former name, Vilna, in documents and letters in 1323 ...
‘Resistance: They Fought Back’ On PBS And A Discussion With Producer Paula Aspell And Holocaust Historian Michael Berenbaum
During this week of International Holocaust Remembrance, Resistance: They Fought Back, an important new Holocaust documentary ...
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A Holocaust crime the world forgot – and 12 men’s daring escape
Motke Zeidel was only 17 when he was captured hiding in the Vilna Ghetto, Lithuania. He assumed that he would soon be executed but instead he was taken first to a Gestapo prison and then ...
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Fania Brantsovsky, last living Vilna ghetto partisan resistance fighter, dies at 102
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 ...
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Holocaust remembrance march participants in Vilnius: it must never be forgotten
VILNIUS - Around 100 people gathered in Vilnius on Monday to take part in a Holocaust remembrance march, and they say this tragedy of the past must never be forgotten must never happen again. Simonas ...