After the Nazis invade Poland, a fierce and fearless Vitka escapes to the free, bohemian city of Vilna, Lithuania, where she meets a group of young artists and inspires them to form a resistance.

YIVO will mark its 100th anniversary on March 24, approaching the digital age invigorated and ready to reach more Jews.

Both sides are naturally at fault. It was more than galling to Lithuania to lose her largest city and ancient capital, Vilna, as well as large tracts of her southeastern territory. She lost them ...

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

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 ...

By Andrew Higgins and Tomas Dapkus The president of Lithuania on Friday visited swampland near his country’s border with Belarus, saying he was “hoping for a miracle” as rescue crews worked ...

Pabrade, Lithuania — Lithuania's president said Friday that he hoped for "a miracle" as he visited the site of a rescue operation to recover four missing U.S. Army soldiers from their submerged ...

At the end of the twentieth century, Chaim Grade preserved the memory of a Jewish tradition besieged by the forces of ...

A sprawling Yiddish-language epic looks back on the lost world of Jewish life in the shtetls of early 20th-century Europe.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. In this image provided by the U.S. Army, Lithuanian Army and emergency services personnel build a makeshift ...

The Polish military has established a group to assist the Lithuanian Army and U.S. Army in a recovery operation for four U.S. Army soldiers who disappeared early Tuesday during a training exercise ...