Such is the situation in Lithuania, where the Nazis and their collaborators murdered over 200,000 Jews, around 95 percent of the country’s prewar Jewish population. Ironically, as Lithuania has ...

Rabbi Dov Landau blamed the conflict on Zionism and called for increased Torah study to protect the country from Arabs.

The march Tuesday in Kaunas, a city 65 miles east of Vilnius, was organized on Lithuania’s independence ... who is believed to have helped murder Jews, and Juozas Ambrazevicius-Brazaitis ...

John Lennon quipped that Epstein’s biography ought to be called “Queer Jew,” according to a biographer who traveled with the ...

Many of the 1,500 Jews who live in Finland today can trace their roots back to the Russian military, which brought them here ...

The afternoon sun broke through northern Poland’s grey skies as we walked into a golden-yellow field hedged by massive evergreens. Birds quietly chirped in the brush. Some in the group were draped in ...

As the family joke goes, that’s where the poor Jews stayed while the wealthier ones settled in Montreal and Toronto. Following the German invasion of Lithuania in June 1941, Jennie’s family ...

Participate in meaningful Shabbat services at the Main Synagogue of Vilna, followed by a serene and reflective Shabbat afternoon ... Join us for an unforgettable journey into the heart of Lithuania’s ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. In an interview with The Associated Press, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda has said that any peace ...

A cadre of American relief workers stood in harm’s way—and bent more than a few rules—to help those who were targeted by the ...

Even 125 years after his birth, Japanese diplomat Chiuna Sugihara, who saved thousands of people during the Holocaust, is far ...