VILNIUS, Lithuania (RNS) — If one city could be said to be the home of Yiddish, the traditional language of Ashkenazi Jewry, ...
Which is probably why the European Jewish Congress and the Jewish Community of Lithuania this week highlighted and commended how city officials in Kaunas named a large new cultural and scientific ...
Even 125 years after his birth, Japanese diplomat Chiuna Sugihara, who saved thousands of people during the Holocaust, is far ...
With a fast-moving plot, multiple characters, and frequent scene changes, staging this play is a challenge, particularly in ...
On Saturday, Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte joined others in a march from the city’s former Jewish ghetto to Paneriai, the forest site formerly known as Ponary where the Nazis and ...
During this week of International Holocaust Remembrance, Resistance: They Fought Back, an important new Holocaust documentary ...
During his time in Lithuania, the Sugiharas quickly became acquainted with many of the local residents, including some Jewish families, who shared with him their fears of the growing Nazi menace.
Brigit Grant, the film’s co-screenwriter, wrote for the British publication The Jewish News last fall about how Epstein was ...