Elly Gotz, who grew up in Lithuania, was one of those prisoners. In 1941, Gotz was 13. He remembers the German Army arriving ...

In case of abuse, A special exhibition commemorating the 100th anniversary of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research at the Vilnius Picture Gallery, part of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art ...

In August, in a wood-framed house in northeastern Lithuania, a young Jewish writer named Matilda Olkin unlocked her diary and began to write: The poem, describing the pilgrimage of an “exhausted ...

(JTA) — Lithuania’s prime minister made what one Jewish organization called an “important step” by introducing legislation to allocate more than $38 million as restitution for Holocaust ...

Hana Ivashkov has told the tale of escaping Lithuania several times, but as she recounted it on Sunday, she said she could ...

In 1939, Solly Ganor was an 11-year-old Jewish boy living in Kaunas, Lithuania. After a chance meeting with Chiune Sugihara, Solly and his family shared an emotional Hanukkah dinner with the ...

“It was dirty and cramped, but so, so alive,” she says. She is one of perhaps 200 survivors from Lithuania’s once-thriving Jewish community who remained in the country after World War II ...