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Gitanas Nausėda as guest of honor at small New York ceremony: 'These acts [of rescue] are without any doubt unique examples of universal human principles to fight the evil'

A memorial plaque to Antanas Ulpis, a Lithuanian librarian and bibliographer, has been unveiled at the YIVO Institute fo...

(JTA) — The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research welcomed Lithuania’s president to its Manhattan headquarters Monday to honor the Jews who rescued rare books and documents from the Vilna Ghetto

A group of writers and intellectuals living in what is now Vilnius, Lithuania, risked their lives to save Jewish culture and history.

In 1941, Jewish intellectuals forced to work in the Nazi-controlled Vilnius archives risked their lives to hide document...

In 1941, Jewish intellectuals forced to work in the Nazi-controlled Vilnius archives risked their lives to hide documents from them. These have now been digitized and can be viewed online.

“We were not simply the beat-up remnants of a civilization, the victims of anti-Semitism. It was a dynamic, thriving, self-reflective and ambitious culture,” says CEO of YIVO Jonathan Brent.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research has completed the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections Project (EBVOCP), a historic 7-year, $7 million initiative to process, conserve and digitize YIVO’s divided pre-war library and archival collections. In 1941, the Nazis ransacked the YIVO Institute in Vilna. Many documents were destroyed and a group of Vilna ghetto…

“We were not simply the beat-up remnants of a civilization, the victims of anti-Semitism. It was a dynamic, thriving, self-reflective and ambitious culture,” says CEO of YIVO Jonathan Brent.

Project has created the single largest repository in the world of online materials related to Eastern European Jewish life