The Scroll
Lithuania Is Building a Convention Center Over Vilna’s Jewish Cemetery. Here’s How You Can Protest.
Locals and top Jewish historians are fighting to prevent the bulldozing of the burial site of one of Europe’s most historic Jewish communities
By
Yair Rosenberg
· January 9, 2017
United States
Get Your (Scape)goat
This week on Unorthodox, rabbinic student Deena Gottlieb and Muslim writer and commentator Arsalan Iftikhar
By
Unorthodox
· July 28, 2016
The Scroll
Holocaust-Era Escape Tunnel, Dug by Prisoners Using Their Hands and Spoons, Uncovered in Lithuania
Researchers are excavating a 100-foot-long tunnel at the site of Ponar Forest massacre near Vilnius
By
Jesse Bernstein
· June 29, 2016
The Scroll
Finding History—and Myself—in Vilnius
The grandchild of Lithuanian Jews hidden during the Holocaust goes back
By
Maia Ipp
· January 26, 2015
Book Reviews
Where Did Yiddish Come From?
An explosive debate erupts from footnotes suggesting that Ashkenazi Jews are Europeans
By
Cherie Woodworth
· June 16, 2014
The Scroll
Lithuanian Jews to Get Reparations
Reigniting criticism of the country’s equation of the Holocaust and Soviet occupation
By
Stephanie Butnick
· November 7, 2013
The Internet
A New Interactive Map of the Vilna Ghetto Asks: What Good Is History if It Isn’t Told?
The reVILNA digital mapping project seeks to restore the lives that were lived before they became anonymous victims
By
Menachem Kaiser
· June 20, 2013
The Scroll
Lithuanian Holocaust Memorial Vandalized
Why this corner of the Shoah is often overlooked
By
Marc Tracy
· July 26, 2011
The Scroll
Write About Your (East-European) Roots
And win a trip to Vilnius
By
Marc Tracy
· January 5, 2011
World
Conference Call
The Lithuanian sponsors of a Holocaust education program have a dark history of their own
By Dovid Katz · December 3, 2010
Food
Holey Mission
An American Jew brings bagels back to Vilnius
By Menachem Kaiser · October 19, 2010
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