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Archeologists uncover floor of the Great Synagogue of Vilna, destroyed by the Nazis and Soviets
The synagogue formed the heart of a once-thriving Jewish community that was virtually obliterated during the Holocaust. (JTA) — A new excavation has unearthed parts of the Great Synagogue of ...
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Brazilian modernist art is celebrating a centennial. One of its pioneers was a Jew from Lithuania.
Born in 1889 in Vilna, Lithuania, part of the Russian Empire at the time, Segall emigrated to Germany to study fine arts and became part of the German Expressionist movement in the early 20th ...
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‘Resistance: They Fought Back’ On PBS And A Discussion With Producer Paula Aspell And Holocaust Historian Michael Berenbaum
Filmed in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Israel, and the U.S., this important documentary takes the viewer from the Vilna Ghetto, to the partisans in the forests, to resistance in the camps themselves ...