Hiding from the Nazis in Japan
Meyer Zucker was one of more than 2,000 Jews saved by diplomat Chiune Sugihara exactly 85 years ago
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Fast Forward Lithuania scraps years of planning by Jewish groups to convert sports complex into Jewish heritage site
The announcement of the new plans for the Soviet-era sports complex has drawn criticism from Jewish advocates
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Film & TV Our preeminent historian of the Jews is finally ready to confront Auschwitz
In 'Simon Schama: The Holocaust, 80 Years On,' the author and PBS host leads an intimate journey into the humanity and inhumanity of the Shoah
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Fast Forward Fania Brantsovsky, Vilna ghetto survivor and 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
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Culture In a young boy’s diary, a record of how Jews lived to the fullest, even in the face of death
YIVO’s new online exhibition tells the story of cultural life in the Vilna ghetto
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Culture Why a museum on prewar Jewish life in Europe was envisioned for New York, but never built
YIVO’s Museum of the Homes of the Past was both too early — and too late
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Fast Forward In a shift, Latvia and Lithuania are paying Holocaust survivors and heirs for their stolen property
The Lithuania program is open to applications only until Dec. 31
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Fast Forward Vilnius is celebrating its 700th anniversary. Lithuanian Jews are commemorating a darker one.
This year also marks the 80th anniversary of the liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto, once the heart of a thriving Jewish community
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