Vilnius is celebrating its 700th anniversary, acknowledging its rich Jewish history as a former cultural powerhouse known as the Jerusalem of the North, with half the city being Jewish in the early 19th century.

David Rieff, a journalist and cultural critic, questions the value of remembering history in his book "In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies."

"Shoah" by Claude Lanzmann is a groundbreaking film that delves deeply into the horrors of the Holocaust, offering a meticulous and unrelenting portrayal of the historical reality of the extermination of European Jewry.

Agnieszka Haska, a cultural anthropologist and science fiction writer in Warsaw, has a deep interest in the historical layers of the city, especially focusing on the vanished Jewish community and their landmarks from before World War II.