Librarian Ona Simaite ran a network that smuggled Jews out of the Vilna Ghetto and smuggled food in. (JTA) – Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Simasius unveiled the sign of the first street in Lithuania ...

THE little town of Memel lies in the southeast corner of the Baltic at the northern outlet of the large, shallow Kurisches Haff. An ever-shifting sandbank, a little more than a mile in width, ...

The dying fires of the Polish-Lithuanian boundary dispute over Vilna do not signify that the heat is dead. An armistice agreed upon by both sides is only a lull in the hostilities that have been ...

The impossibility of conveying in ordinary Yiddish the experience of walking through the empty streets of one’s eradicated ...

Four US Army soldiers have died in Lithuania after they disappeared on a training site while on maneuvers just miles from the border, NATO’s Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Wednesday.

Motke Zeidel was only 17 when he was captured hiding in the Vilna Ghetto, Lithuania. He assumed that he would soon be executed but instead he was taken first to a Gestapo prison and then, after a ...

Holocaust Museum LA, in partnership with The Ebell of Los Angeles, will present a performance of the inspiring musical 'Vilna ...