The Vilna Ghetto was a World War II Jewish ghetto established and operated by Nazi Germany in the city of Vilnius in the modern country of Lithuania,...

1915 – 17 June 1981), also known by his nom de guerre "Antek", was one of the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 against Nazi Germany during...

Vilnius (/ˈvɪlniəs/ VIL-nee-əs, Lithuanian: [ˈvʲɪlʲnʲʊs] ) is the capital of and largest city in Lithuania and the second-most-populous city in the Baltic...

and protect Jews in the Vilna Ghetto. At first, Plagge employed Jews who lived inside the ghetto, but when the ghetto was slated for liquidation in September...

related to History of Vilnius. Chronicles of the Vilna Ghetto: wartime photographs & documents – vilnaghetto.com History of Vilnius Archived 30 August 2008...

Vilnius University (Lithuanian: Vilniaus universitetas) is a public research university, which is the first and largest university in Lithuania, as well...

Jewtown, Judería or proto-ghetto) is the area of a city traditionally inhabited by Jews. Jewish quarters, like the Jewish ghettos in Europe, were often the...

October 1943, Neugebauer was Obersturmführer and headed the Vilnius Gestapo as the Vilna Ghetto was in a "quiet" phase. He was a member the Einsatzkommando...

1903 – 30 September 1984) was a German Nazi official and de facto commander of the Vilna Ghetto and a Holocaust perpetrator. He was also the commander of...

today's Vilnius, Lithuania. 70,000 Jews were murdered at Ponary, along with up to 2,000 Poles, 8,000 Soviet POWs, most of them from nearby Vilnius, and its...

from Vilnius and reached the forest where she became a Soviet partisan. Glezer wrote several songs during her years of imprisonment in the ghetto. Most...

returned to Vilnius, now occupied by the Germans. In September 1941, she and her family were imprisoned in the newly established Vilna Ghetto. Since her...

Holocaust in Lithuania was held in Vilnius in 1993, on the 50th anniversary of the liquidation of the Vilnius ghetto. Zingeris and Kostanian jointly published...

liquidation of the Vilnius Ghetto, Kittel was posted to the newly formed Kovno concentration camp in the reorganized Kovno Ghetto as a liaison between...

The city of Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, and its surrounding region has a long history. The Vilnius Region has been part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania...

resistance fighter during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943. Surrounded by the Germans and their auxiliaries in the ghetto bunker, she refused to surrender...

the USSR (approx. 8,500), the number of escapees from the Kaunas and Vilnius ghettos, (1,500–2,000), as well as the number of survivors in the concentration...

1993, he has lived in the United States. Samuel Bak was born in Wilno (Vilnius), Second Polish Republic, on August 12, 1933. Bak was recognized from an...

was also responsible for the provisioning and security of the ghettos. In the Vilnius region, the Lithuanians used their influential role in the administration...

Noreika was drafted into the Soviet Army, then worked as a jurist in Vilnius, where he was an organizer of the anti-Soviet Lithuanian National Council...

under false papers in Schmid's apartment in Vilnius. Adler introduced Schmid to key figures in the Vilna Ghetto resistance movement, including Mordechai...

Dvortzhetski was born in Vilnius (Vilna), Lithuania (at the time part of the Russian Empire). He received his education in Vilnius (Polish: Wilno) during...

"Jews in Latvia" Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust museum Holocaust Exhibition at the Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum (Vilnius) Ponary Massacre Memorial...

The Warsaw Ghetto Museum is a historical museum in Warsaw currently under construction. The target seat of the museum is the historic complex of the former...

free of Jews except for about 34,500 Jews concentrated in Vilnius, Kaunas and Šiauliai Ghettos. However, Jäger Report did not tally all Jewish deaths in...

Category:People of Lithuanian-Jewish descent Jewish cemeteries of Vilnius Vilna Ghetto History of the Jews in Lithuania History of the Jews in Latvia Timeline...

1905, Wilno (now Vilnius) – May 1943, Warsaw) was a Polish-Jewish socialist activist, one of the leaders of the Bund in the Warsaw Ghetto and a participant...

Stanisławów Ghetto officially closed from the outside and sealed with walls. Vilna Ghetto 400 Jews killed by Lithuanian militias inside the ghetto. 21 December...

Švenčionys district municipality, located 84 kilometers (52 mi) north of Vilnius. As of 2020[update], it had a population of 4,065 of which about 17% were...

elderly poet living in Vilnius in the 1990s, who is troubled by a guilty secret from his youth. The novel is set partly in 1990s Vilnius and partly in war...