Vilna
Online tour: Pre-war Jewish Vilna as seen through eyes of a teen girl
The exhibit is based on an autobiography that Beba Epstein, a secular middle-class teenager, wrote in Yiddish
Poet Abraham Sutzkever’s memoirs of the Vilna Ghetto are now in English
Sutzkever’s memoirs were one of the earliest witness accounts of the Holocaust to be published in book form.
In Vilna, where thousands were murdered, I learned how difficult it is to mourn an absence
Visiting Vilna, Lithuania’s vanished center of Jewish life
She Survived The Holocaust. This Week, She’ll Turn 100.
Henia Ragol, a Holocaust survivor and loyal reader of the Yiddish Forverts will celebrate her hundredth birthday this spring.
Vilna Dubs Itself ‘G-Spot of Europe’ — Is the G for ‘Genocide?’
Hit a rut in your love life? Why not head to Vilna, where 90% of Jewish residents were murdered during the Holocaust, to spice things up?
How The Vilna Troupe Took Yiddish Theater Global
The Yiddish theater’s first goal was to develop a modern secular Yiddish culture and bring some hope to the Jewish community during difficult times.
How Vilna’s Jews Rescued Their Books From the Nazis
Using both Jewish and Nazi documentation, David Fishman’s book describes the day-to-day operation of the so-called Paper Brigade.
Q&A: Remembering The Writers Who Defied The Nazis To Save Jewish Texts
There were people that were literally willing to lay down their lives for culture.
VIDEO: Avrom Karpinovitch, Writer, Remembers Jewish Criminals In Vilna
Among Karpinovitch’s most memorable characters is Tall Tamara, the Jewish streetwalker who refused the Nazis‘ command to undress.
The Woman Who Rescued Jewish Books From The Vilna Ghetto
The Nazis were collecting Judaica for a museum on the extinct Jewish people. Rachela Krinsky defied them, risking her life.