NEW YORK — More than a year after the Nazis forced Yitskhok Rudashevski, a 15-year-old Lithuanian Jew, into the Vilna Ghetto, he remained unbowed. “Today we have shown that even in the three ...

Michael Blum is the assistant director at William & Mary’s Studio for Teaching & Learning Innovation. He is also a teaching & ...

A DHL cargo plane crashed near the Vilnius Airport in Lithuania’s capital city on Monday, killing at least one person and injuring two others, although the cause of the accident remains unknown.

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 ...

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 ...

Moreover, even before 1920, Poland seized part of Lithuania - the Vilna region, which includes modern-day Vilnius. "Together with the Lithuanians, they [the Poles] were supposedly battling against ...

A yad, a metal object used for public readings of the Torah, also was unearthed in the Lithuanian capital ... great sages who prayed there was the Vilna Gaon, the 18th-century rabbinical luminary ...