How my family survived the Warsaw Ghetto
The Warsaw Ghetto was a death warrant. Among those who were forcibly collected and sealed to die within its walls was my ...
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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 ...
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Once a beacon of the Yiddish speaking world, Lithuania's Jews work to keep it alive
During that time, 95% of Lithuania’s Jews were murdered, including 70,000 Jews from the Vilnius ghetto, who were executed and ...
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Fania Brantsovsky, last living Vilna ghetto partisan resistance fighter, dies at 102
We lost our last active veteran of the Vilna ghetto and the Jewish partisans,” said Dovid Katz, an American-born Yiddishist and co-founder of the Vilnius Yiddish Institute. “And on a personal ...
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Vilnius is celebrating its 700th anniversary. Lithuanian Jews are commemorating a darker one.
Meanwhile, the Jewish community has held events tied to the ghetto anniversary outside of the Vilnius 700 umbrella. Earlier this month, in the courtyard of the former Jewish Council headquarters ...