Tag: Vilna Ghetto

Pesach's story of hope and redemption, as depicted in the Haggadah, has always been a source of strength for the Jewish people.
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.
This text discusses the hideouts known as "malines" that were created in the Vilna Ghetto during the Holocaust.
Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim, a Yiddish poet and Holocaust survivor, passed away recently in Israel.
This article discusses the cultural life in the Vilna Ghetto during the German occupation from 1941 to 1943.
During the Holocaust in the Vilna Ghetto, Jewish inmates faced intense scrutiny at the ghetto gate, with some risking their lives to smuggle various contraband, including rare rabbinic books, to save the Jewish cultural legacy from Nazi looting.