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	Ghettoes: Judenrate - Vilna
		Education was a larger priority for the Council of the second ghetto of Vilna than the first, which was established on July 4, 1941, with an original membership of ten.
		A judicial department, or 'panel' made up part of the Vilna Council also, and consisted of 38 lawyers, bar applicants, and law students who gave legal advice and provided the inmates of the ghetto with representation in the court.
		On the third day in the Vilna Ghetto, a group of teachers decided to open a school for which the Jewish Council had to designate a few buildings within the ghetto.
	cghs.dade.k12.fl.us /ib_holocaust2001/Ghettoes/judenrate/vilna (1365 words)

	VilnaGhetto
		This account of the Vilna Ghetto is a brief description of what my Vilna relatives lived and died through.
		From Spiritual Resistance in the Vilna Ghetto by Rachel Kostanian-Danzig of the Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania.
		Education and Culture in the Vilna Ghetto (1942)
	www.noarfamily.com /Vilnaghetto.html (4463 words)

	FORWARD : Arts & Letters
		The play tells the story of a real-life theater troupe that existed in the Vilna ghetto until it was liquidated by the Nazis in 1943.
		Based on the true story of a theater company inside the Lithuanian ghetto of Vilna, and created by Mr.
		The pivotal characters in the drama are Jacob Gens, the chief of Jewish police in the ghetto who makes the agonizing decision to lead hundred of Jews to their deaths in order to try to save the lives of thousands more, and Kittel, the bored and sadistic young S.S. officer in charge of the ghetto.
	www.forward.com /issues/2000/00.11.10/arts1.html (4463 words)

	Vilna
		The Vilna ghetto had a significant Jewish resistance movement.
		Under the terms of the German-Soviet Pact, Vilna, along with the rest of eastern Poland, was occupied by Soviet forces in late September 1939.
		Poland and Lithuania both claimed Vilna (Vilnius) after World War I. Polish forces occupied Vilna in 1920, and before the outbreak of World War II, the city of Vilna was part of northeastern Poland.
	www.ushmm.org /wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005173 (669 words)

	rsg0637f.htm
		In '41, right before...they used to...the Jewish holidays, they...the SS decided to make a ghetto in our town, in Vilna, and there was a poor section where a lot of Jews used to live there.
		And, uh, the Jewish home for the aged was there, and the biggest synagogue of the city of Vilna was there.
		And a couple of weeks later they rounded up all the Jews from the city and the suburbs and they put us all in this ghetto, in this...and surrounded us with walls, and with guards, and we had to live in one...in an apartment, two to three families in a two-room apartment.
	www.ushmm.org /misc-bin/add_goback/outreach/rsg0637f.htm (214 words)

	Musarium: Lithuania: Looking Back 3
		Instead, he showed me several volumes in Russian, Yiddish and Hebrew which recounted how in September, 1943, when the Germans were closing in on the Vilna Ghetto, he was able to find a way out for 120 people because of his knowledge of the sewers and underground water canals.
		Szmuel Kapinsky, who was born in 1914 in Belarus, was too modest to talk about his heroic exploits in saving 120 Jews from the Vilna Ghetto during World War Two.
		Later, they joined with the partisans in the forest outside of Vilna.
	www.journale.com /LITHUANIA/lithuania3.html (159 words)

	phoenixnewtimes.com Calendar Calendar for the week 1997-11-13 Printable
		Set in Vilna (the "Jerusalem of Lithuania") in 1942, Ghetto centers on a Yiddish theatrical company whose raison d'etre is the amusement of the ghetto's commanding SS officer but whose troupers use their limited freedom of expression to examine the life-and-death issues confronting them.
		Scott Withers of the Valley's In Mixed Company, the troupe presenting the show, says Silver actually wrote two finales to Chain, and "we picked the happier one, because we thought it was even more pathetic." This week's performances are on Thursday, November 13; Friday, November 14; and Saturday, November 15.
		Each Thursday is "barter night"; those who bring in $15 worth of nonperishable food items get a small price break, and St. Mary's Food Bank gets the donation.
	www.phoenixnewtimes.com /issues/1997-11-13/calendar/calendar_print.html (159 words)

	Phoenix Theatre's "Ghetto"
		Ghetto, by Joshua Sobol and translated by David Lan, is a vivid, depressing and historically accurate account at the short life of a theatre created by Jewish inhabitants of the Vilna, Lithuania ghetto during the Holocaust.
		As with other plays that look at the horrors and atrocities incurred by the Nazis, the piece is both a denouncement of hate and a celebration of the strength of human will.
		Sobol has taken the meticulous diary of Kruk, the librarian, and written about the theatre group that was formed.
	www.loonnews.com /mychele/aaro/ghetto.html (159 words)

	Medill News Service : Chicago
		The historically-rooted play recreates the experiences of the Vilna Troupe, a theatrical house run by Jewish actors living in the Lithuanian ghetto during the Nazi occupation.
		Sobol fashioned the script around chronicled diary entries written between 1941 and 1943 by a ghetto inhabitant known to history only as Kruk.
	mesh.medill.northwestern.edu /mnschicago/archives/2000/01/ghetto_revisits.html (159 words)

	Year Zero
		1985 also marked the 40th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz to which the surviving residents of the Jewish ghetto in Vilna had finally been deported in 1943.
		The Jewish playwright Joshua Sobol commemorated this theatre troupe in his 1985 musical GHETTO, which played to packed houses in East Berlin and Hamburg.
		They had held out that long by staging musical entertainment for their Nazi and Polish jailers.
	www.ibaradio.org /Europe/berlin/berlin4.htm (159 words)

	Students ace 'Ghetto' lessons
		In Vilna there is horror and madness - by the end of the Nazi occupation, only 3,000 of 60,000 Jews have survived.
		Except for some brief flagging in the second act (on the part of the script, not the company), Ghetto is near hypnotic.
		Ghetto is an enormous undertaking for a student ensemble and takes most of the sophomore, junior and senior classes to fill the cast.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2004/02/20/tem_0220ghetto.html (159 words)

	Program Notes
		Born in Belorussia, he moved to Vilna in 1920 and was in the Vilna ghetto during the Holocaust, escaping to join the partisans.
		Unter dayne vayse shtern was set to music by Avrom Brudno, who is known for this and other Holocaust songs, and who was sent to his death at a German concentration camp in Estonia when the Vilna ghetto was liquidated in 1943.
		Vilna sewed the first thread in our flag of freedom and inspired its children with a gentle spirit.
	www.mazicmusic.com /notes.htm (159 words)

	The Jewish Community of Vilna, Lithuania
		It is estimated that approximately 100,000 Jews from Vilna and the vicinity perished in the Vilna ghetto.
		In February 1633 the Jews of Vilna were granted a charter of privileges permitting them to engage in all branches of commerce, distilling, and any crafts not subject to the guild organizations, but restricting their place of residence in the city.
		At the beginning of the 20th century Vilna became the center of the Zionist movement in Russia, and saw the rise of a flourishing Hebrew and Yiddish literature.
	www.bh.org.il /Communities/Archive/Vilna.asp (2310 words)

	The Future of the Vilna Ghetto
		In two peat-cutting camps near Vilna the Jews tried to escape and to join a group of bandits.* In a third peat camp an atonement measure was carried out, and the rest of the camp, together with the entire fourth Jewish peat camp, were transferred to the Vilna** Ghetto.
		In addition to the four Jewish peat camps that have now been dismantled there are still, outside the Vilna Ghetto, two Jewish camps of the OT [Organization Todt], which must complete the important connecting road between Vilna and Kovno by September 1, 1943.
		The exposed situation of the Vilna area, with respect to the neighboring area of partisans and the activities of the PW,* necessitates the withdrawal of the Jews from the Vilna** area and their continued placement in concentration camps elsewhere.
	www.us-israel.org /jsource/Holocaust/vilnafuture.html (435 words)

	Testimony of Abram Suzkever in the Nuremberg Trial
		About half the Jewish population of Vilna never reached the ghetto; they were shot on the way.
		Fincks had set up two ghettos in Vilna.
		Abram Suzkever, a witness to Einsatzgrruppen atrocities in Vilna, was examined by L. Smirnov.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/nuremberg/suzkevertest.html (1566 words)

	The Partisans of Vilna (1986) - PopMatters Film Review
		Barely a month later, Abba Kovner called the young people of Vilna to resistance with the words, "Let us not be led like sheep to the slaughter," which inspired the creation of an umbrella resistance in the ghetto, called the United Partisans Organization (FPO), dedicated to sabotage and armed resistance.
		While much of this potential is devoted, in the current DVD market, to the manufacture of nostalgia, The Partisans of Vilna demonstrates that the conjunction of exceptional filmmaking with exceptional presentation serve both art and memory, providing witness to both the approximately 55,000 Vilna Jews who perished, and the fewer than 5,000 who survived.
		By December of 1941, the Aktions had murdered 40,000 of Vilna's Jews, a chilling reminder of the efficiency of German genocide prior to the death camps.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/p/partisans-of-vilna.shtml (1451 words)

	Ventura Distribution : New Releases : Partisans of Vilna — 20th Anniversary Collector’s Edition
		Recounting how a commando unit was formed under tremendous risk to conduct sabotage missions against the Nazis, the film explores the moral dilemmas facing the Jewish youth who organized an underground resistance in the Vilna ghetto, and fought as partisans in the woods against the Third Reich.
		More than just a record of great historical importance, Partisans of Vilna is an intensely stirring and uplifting commemoration of heroes during the darkest of times.
		Co-written by director Josh Waletzky (Image Before My Eyes) and producer Aviva Kempner (The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg), Partisans of Vilna skillfully blends songs, newsreels and archival footage with interviews of over forty Holocaust survivors to paint an eye-opening, highly detailed portrait of the courageous Jewish resistance in Vilna, the capital of Lithuania.
	venturadistribution.com /new_releases/serve/9574/... (226 words)

	The Jewish Community of Vilna, Lithuania
		It is estimated that approximately 100,000 Jews from Vilna and the vicinity perished in the Vilna ghetto.
		In February 1633 the Jews of Vilna were granted a charter of privileges permitting them to engage in all branches of commerce, distilling, and any crafts not subject to the guild organizations, but restricting their place of residence in the city.
		At the beginning of the 20th century Vilna became the center of the Zionist movement in Russia, and saw the rise of a flourishing Hebrew and Yiddish literature.
	www.bh.org.il /Communities/Archive/vilna.asp (2310 words)

	Gaon of Vilna on Encyclopedia.com
		Rivlin marks 60th anniversary of Vilna Ghetto's destruction
		Vilna Gaon's grave desecrated..BY..BTX Vilna Gaon's grave desecrated
		Vilna Gaon remembered as the 'pride of Lithuania'
	encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-G1aonV1iln.asp (196 words)

	Ghettos
		Other major ghettos were Lodz, Krakow, Bialystok, Lvov, Lublin, Vilna, Kovno, Czestochowa, and Minsk.
		Daily life in the ghettos was administered by Nazi-appointed Jewish councils (Judenraete) and Jewish police, whom the Germans forced to maintain order inside the ghetto and to facilitate deportations to the extermination camps.
		The largest ghetto in Poland was the Warsaw ghetto, where approximately 450,000 Jews were crowded into an area of 1.3 square miles.
	www.ushmm.org /wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005059&printing=yes (196 words)

	Lodz Poland Vilna
		with the creative forces and spiritual resistance in the Vilna ghetto.
		She was born in Vilna, Lithuania, and was a graduate of the Vilna Gymnasium.
		She was born in Vilna and became a Yiddish actress at an early age.
	www.chinabusinessman.org /Lodz_Poland_Vilna.htm (196 words)

	ShtetLinks Page -- Vilna
		Vilna :The German Occupation, The Ghetto and the Holocaust in Vilna.
		Rabbi Eliyahu of Vilna - The Vilna Gaon
		The Vilna Gaon - Rabbi Eliyahu of Vilna
	www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org /vilna/vilna.htm (447 words)

	Holocaust Timeline
		- The Vilna Ghetto is established containing 40,000 Jews.
		The camp will be reactivated in the spring of 1944 to liquidate ghettos.
		- The Krakow Ghetto is sealed off containing 70,000 Jews.
	www.torahtots.com /holocaust/timeline.htm (447 words)

	Guysen Israel News : Culture : Souviens toi1er janvier
		Les organisations juives du ghetto de Vilna (Lituanie) fondent un mouvement de résistance dirigé par Itzhak Wittenber, Joseph Glazman et Abba Kovner.
		Un transport de 1 000 juifs environ du ghetto de Lodz arrive au camp d’extermination de Chelmno.
		A Budapest, au cours d’une Aktion qui dure deux jours, les SS chassent plus de 200 juifs hors de leurs maisons et les fusillent.
	www.guysen.com /print.php?sid=1795 (447 words)

	THHP Questions: The Vilna Ghetto
		We're interested in every information, exspecially in photographys, reports about the Ghetto (reports from people who lived in the ghetto, but also reports from german soldiers, SS-members...) and military introductions for the german soldiers, the SS or the SD.
		Also helpful for our work would be plans from the ghetto, numbers of the "prisoners" (sorry, I don't know a suitable word for it, the word "prisoners" plays it too much down) and other statistic infos.
		At my school, the Beisenkamp-Gymnasium in Hamm (Germany), Joshua Sobol's drama "Ghetto" will be played in October 2000 and so I work with some other pupils on the historical background.
	www.holocaust-history.org /questions/vilna.shtml (447 words)

	ghettoguar.html
		In the end, Sobol shows that, whether you negociate with tyranny or adopt a policy of armed resistance, you cannot counter its arbitrary cruelty: for all Gens's accommodation, the Vilna ghetto was liquidated in 1943.
		But Sobol's real point is that there is a life of the spirit - here embodied by members of the Vilna Troupe - that is less easily crushed.
		Sobol has seized on and intelligently used the historical fact that the troupe put on plays and revues even as Jews were deported to the camp at Ponar five miles up the road.
	www.alexjennings.com /library/ghettoguar.html (447 words)

	vol09028.txt
		Miriam Orleska died in a death camp with the business manager and cofounder of the Vilna Troupe Mordechai Mazo after being transported there from the Warsaw ghetto.
		In addition to appearing in the world premiere, Luba Kadison is the daughter of Vilna Troupe cofounder, Leib Kadison and the widow of actor Joseph Buloff.
		Subject: dybbuk To Michael Steinlauf: To find out more about the original production of The Dybbuk by the Vilna Troupe - you should read the book On Stage, Off Stage, Memories of a Lifetime in the Yiddish Theater, written by the last surviving member of the company Luba Kadison.
	shakti.trincoll.edu /~mendele/vol09/vol09028.txt (447 words)

	Gaon of Vilna on Encyclopedia.com
		Rivlin marks 60th anniversary of Vilna Ghetto's destruction
		Vilna Gaon's grave desecrated..BY..BTX Vilna Gaon's grave desecrated
		Vanished city: Vilna now can only be found in echoes and glimpses.
	encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-G1aonV1iln.asp (196 words)

	Vilna Jerusalem of Lithuania: Generations from 1881 to 1939 [in Hebrew]. - KLAUSNER ISRAEL / BARANTCHOK SHMUEL (ED.)
		Vilna Jerusalem of Lithuania: Generations from 1881 to 1939 [in Hebrew].
		KLAUSNER ISRAEL / BARANTCHOK SHMUEL (ED.) Vilna Jerusalem of Lithuania: Generations from 1881 to 1939 [in Hebrew].
		Israel: By Ghetto Fighters` House,1983.240x165 306pp 694pp soft cover worn cover and spine ex library with the usual marks else in good condition.
	www.antiqbook.com /boox/bkgall/Kg_69_12.shtml (93 words)

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