Lithuania

Day 5: Leaving Lithuania with Lessons Forward – By Adam Reinherz

By Jackie Golblum / Thursday, September 11, 2025 / Comments Off on Day 5: Leaving Lithuania with Lessons Forward – By Adam Reinherz

Before leaving Lithuania we stopped at the Samuel Bak Museum and Ponevezh Yeshiva. Thepairing could not have been more perfect. At the Museum, we learned Bak was recognized early on […]

Day 4: Stairs Are a Place to Climb – By Adam Reinherz

By Jackie Golblum / Wednesday, September 10, 2025 / Comments Off on Day 4: Stairs Are a Place to Climb – By Adam Reinherz

Stairs are a place to climb. Yet the staircase inside the Sugihara House forces you down, andaround, before reaching its point. Initially, the structure feels similar to many residential stairwells. […]

Day 3: Sounds From a Forest – By Adam Reinherz

By Jackie Golblum / Tuesday, September 9, 2025 / Comments Off on Day 3: Sounds From a Forest – By Adam Reinherz

When you walk in Ponary there are sounds: the crackling of leaves beneath your feet, the strikeof a lighter as a flame ignites, the placing of a memorial candle near […]

Day 1: Understanding Vilnius Through Its Stones and Legends – By Adam Reinherz

By Jackie Golblum / Sunday, September 7, 2025 / Comments Off on Day 1: Understanding Vilnius Through Its Stones and Legends – By Adam Reinherz

The day began with a charge, our tour guide Ernest said. This venture, and its two parts, should“provide the historical context of Vilna.” Representing our morning and afternoon excursions, the […]

Post Film Discussion Vishniac with Laura Bialis Producer/Director and CWB Scholar Avi Ben-Hur

By Ellen Resnek / Thursday, January 4, 2024 / Comments Off on Post Film Discussion Vishniac with Laura Bialis Producer/Director and CWB Scholar Avi Ben-Hur

“All this life, it’s so important to look closer, and the world will be bigger.” – Roman Vishniac   Film link delivered to registrants 3 days before our engaging post-film […]

Beba Epstein: The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Girl

By Ateret Cope / Tuesday, February 1, 2022 / Comments Off on Beba Epstein: The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Girl

Centered on the autobiography of Beba Epstein written in the 1930’s and discovered in 2017. This exhibit draws on hundreds of YIVO’s archival materials. The exhibition explores East European Jewish […]

Holocaust Escape Tunnel | Testament to Courage

By Ateret Cope / Sunday, January 30, 2022 / Comments Off on Holocaust Escape Tunnel | Testament to Courage

Join archaeologists, geologists, and engineers as they uncover the truth about an astonishing story—told by a handful of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust—of a secret escape tunnel, dug by hand, […]

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