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"The Jerusalem of Lithuania" (East European Jewry) Vilne (Yiddish)
A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed
City of Vilnius, 1915
Reminiscences
The Solly Yellin Center of Lithuanian Jewry
Simon Kovar (nee Kovarski)
Yehuda Kagan
Abraham Sutzkever
Rabbi Jacob Joseph
Arno Nadel
The story of the poet, Moshe Kulbak
Rabbi Yitzkak Rubenstein
About Bogen's Gallery By Abba Kovner
Leopold Godowsky (1870-1938)
David Labkovski, Artist
Abraham Foxman
The Crime of Surviving
Lithuania’s Last Jewish Fort
Dr. Rachel Margolis
Abraham Dob Bär Lebensohn
Embers Plucked from the Fire: The Rescue of Jewish Cultural Treasures in Vilna
FANIA YOCHELES BRANTSOVSKY
Naftali Aharoni
The Durmashkin-Beker- Gurko family
Yosef Tunkel (1881–August 9, 1949)
Mendele Moykher-Sforim (1835-1917)
The Klausner family of the Vilna region
Zelig Reuven Bengis
Hayyim Selig Slonimski
Vitka Kempner Kovner
Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Baruch Shub
Music in the Vilna Ghetto
Shmerke Kaczerginski and Music after the holocaust
Grigory Solomonovich Pomerants
Zev Wolfson (1928- 2012)
The story of Shoshana and Shalom Shorenson
The Holocaust in Lithuania, and Its Obfuscation, in Lithuanian Sources
Finding Maya
Chabas/ Habas Family
Michael Halperin (Vilna 1860- Zfat 1919)
Tzemach Feldstein
Instead of Truth about the Holocaust – Myths about Saving Jews
Joseph Shreberk
Echoes from a silent past: restoring and preserving Jewish cemeteries in Lithuania
Alter- Sholem Kacyzne
Can Vilnius Remember Vilna?
MEILACH STALEVICH
Eyewitness Meyshke Preys (Misha Preisas): Kovno (Kaunas), 23 June 1941
Unread Family Letters Open Window Onto Life on the Eve of the Holocaust
Esther R. Hautzig
Tzemach Ben Zvi Feldstein
Ita and Chaim Shapiro
Twenty-One and One: Twenty-One Yiddish Actors Murdered by Nazis in Vilna 1941-1942
Chaim Grade at 100 By Rukhl Schaechter
Shabtai Blecher (Blaicher/ Blacher)
The Ghosts of Samuel Bak
The Bunimovichs
Mordechai Rosman, a Leader of the Refugees
Maximilian Steinberg
MEILACH STALEVICH by Dovid Katz
Bekker Family
2014: Professor Pinchos Fridberg, Adamant for Truth, is Defending History’s Person of the Year
Joseph Levinson
Boris Schatz (1866–1932)
The Zalkind Family
HIRSH GUTGESHTALT (HIRSZ GUTGESTALT) and MIRIAM GUTGESHTALT
ABBA GORDIN
The Halperin/ Galperin Family
Saved in Shanghai
The Serewitch family of Vilna
Samuel Sadinsky, Dad loved Science & lived like he worked - committed to doing his best
Escape Tunnel, Dug by Hand, Is Found at Holocaust Massacre Site
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY: HOW ART CAN HELP US REMEMBER
Science confirms the incredible story of Lithuania's Holocaust Escape Tunnel
Masha Leon (1931 Warsaw- 2017 New York)
Leizer Bart and his wife Zenia Lewinson-Bart, Jewish freedom fighters against the Nazis
Sonia Pauline Beker
The Story of Dr. Aharon Einat, A child survivor of Ghetto Vilna
Henia Ragol
Avraham Gorali
The Story of Alik Wolkowyski ( Alexander Tamir)
The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos
Simon Trakinski
Links
Wilno in 16th
Century - http://www.kresy.co.uk/wilno_16cent.html
Abba Kovner - http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/aa030799.htm
Vilna story from Beit Hatfuzot - http://www.bh.org.il/Communities/Archive/Vilna.asp
VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=125&v=4bGT_D1pokg
Anachnu Kaan ( We are here) Jewish artists in Vilna in 1956 ( singers, musicians, actors and dancers ) established a troop who preformed in Yiddish and Hebrew. In 1971 many were able to immigrate to Israel and reestablish the troop there.