Notably, Jewish heritage in Lithuania and from Lithuania in many ... being a very well-known illustrator of various Jewish books, including Psalms, Talmud, Jewish history, and was working closely ...

Shemp died in 1955 at age 60. His death certificate says the cause was a heart attack, but some believe it was a cerebral ...

Ustjanauskas, a longtime West Hartford resident, survived the Holocaust. Gens-Ustjanauskas, now 98, spent her life helping ...

The book begins with the family of the respected ... In the final section, the various plot strands come together and the Polish-Lithuanian Jewish communities face deep economic decline, as ...

when his family traveled to Lithuania along with Richard Freund, a University of Hartford professor who had three goals on that trip: one was to find a tunnel that approximately 80 Jewish people ...

Library of Congress of Eastern European Jews,” Eddy Portnoy, director of exhibitions at the nonprofit, told JNS.The post At 100, YIVO aims ...

More than 40 years after the death of Chaim Grade – whom Elie Wiesel called “one of the great, if not the greatest, ...