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

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 ...

Steve Rotschild’s memoir, “Traces of What Was,” details his family’s persecution at the hands of the Nazis in Vilna, Lithuania, and his mother’s unwavering determination to keep her ...

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 ...

Moses Beckelman arrived in Vilna in October 1939 to begin his work ... By June 1940, the Soviet Union had taken control of Lithuania and began ordering the refugees’ deportation to Siberia.

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.

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, ...

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 ...

Born in Oszmiana, Poland (now Belarus), a shtetl near Vilnius, Lithuania, Baran was a teenager when her father and uncles were murdered by Nazis in 1941, along with almost all the other adult ...

A few days after a Chinese ship was suspected of severing two telecommunication cables in the Baltic Sea last November, Lithuania expelled three Chinese diplomats. And this wasn’t the first time this ...

While Lithuania’s inflation has dropped below that in the rest of the eurozone during 2024, high rates of inflation and wage growth in the previous years leave price and wage levels elevated, ...