Herzog told Karis that the Balkans are enshrined in Israel’s history because several of the country’s presidents and prime ministers were born there.He said he would like to visit Tallinn (Estonia’s ...

Sometimes, I think would I be able to do? I don't know. ♪ [Bells tolling] ♪ ♪ Man: Vilna was called the Jerusalem of Lithuania. Vilna was probably the most Jewish city in the world.

During this week of International Holocaust Remembrance, Resistance: They Fought Back, an important new Holocaust documentary ...

Moses Beckelman arrived in Vilna in October 1939 to begin his work ... who had fled to the city from Nazi-occupied Poland. The Lithuanian Red Cross had declined to provide aid, Ms. Dwork tells ...

A cadre of American relief workers stood in harm’s way—and bent more than a few rules—to help those who were targeted by the ...

He holds a PhD (2018) and a master’s degree (2012) from Vilnius University (Lithuania) and previously worked at the Vilna Gaon Museum of Jewish History as the head of the Paneriai Memorial. Over the ...

In Vilna, when Lithuanian authorities limited eligibility for citizenship to individuals who had resided in the city before October 1939, excluding 90% of the Jews who resided there and ...

Holocaust survivor Millie Baran has seen and done a lot in her 99 years. After being confined to the Oszmiana ghetto in Poland, she was deported as a teen to ...

Join us for an unforgettable journey into the heart of Lithuania’s Jewish past. Cost is per person based on double occupancy. The price does not include your flight to Poland and home from Vilna, ...

both Nazis and their collaborators from Lithuania systematically shot... about 100,000 people in these pits. [stirring music plays] REENACTOR: "One thing is clear to me. "Vilna is not just Vilna.

My many visits to Lithuania over the years, primarily focused on Holocaust-restitution issues, have invariably found me walking the streets of Vilna and trying to imagine how that city ...