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	Vilna
		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.
		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.
		In October 1939, the Soviet Union transferred the Vilna region to Lithuania.
	www.ushmm.org /wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005173 (0 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Vilna
		Lithuania, is situated at the junction of the Rivers Vileika and Vilja; population 165,000 in 1910.
		Vilna, founded a seminary, under the direction of the Jesuits, introduced the regulations of the Council of Trent, and, having been made a cardinal, was transferred to the
		Vilna (district), 9 parishes, 52,690 souls; Wilejka, 10 parishes, 35,783 souls; Wisniew, 15 parishes, 83,900 souls; Wolkowysk, 16 parishes, 58,825 souls.
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	Vilna
		Vilna, the capital of Lithuania, is situated at the junction of the Rivers Vileika and Vilja; population 165,000 in 1910.
		The Bernardines undertook at Vilna, in 1469, the construction of a wooden church, rebuilt in stone in 1500; it was burnt down in 1794 and restored in 1900.
		Vilna is perhaps the most devout city in the Russian Empire, and its piety is all the more admirable because the paucity of secular clergy and the complete lack of religious orders render it difficult for the people to fulfil their religious duties.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/v/vilna.html (2089 words)

	The Jewish Community of Vilna, Lithuania
		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.
		It is estimated that approximately 100,000 Jews from Vilna and the vicinity perished in the Vilna ghetto.
	www.bh.org.il /Communities/Archive/Vilna.asp (2310 words)

	CalendarHome.com - Vilna Gaon - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Vilna Gaon (April 23, 1720 – October 9, 1797) was a prominent Jewish rabbi, Talmud scholar, and Kabbalist.
		The Vilna Gaon, in a letter to Eybeschütz, stated that, while in full sympathy with him, he did not believe that words coming from a stranger like himself, who had not even the advantage of old age, would be of any weight with the contending parties.
		The Vilna Gaon was a voluminous author; there is hardly an ancient Hebrew book of any importance to which he did not write a commentary, or at least provide marginal glosses and notes, which were mostly dictated to his pupils.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Vilna_Gaon (2049 words)

	Vilna, Alberta (Canada) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Vilna is named for Vilna/Vilnius in modern Lithuania, but disputed between Lithuania and Poland around the time many Eastern European settlers were arriving on the Canadian Prairies.
		The Village of Vilna is located Highway 28 in the County of Smoky Lake, 1.5 hrs drive north-east of Edmonton and 3.5 hrs south of Fort McMurray.
		The Vilna District was opened in 1907 by an influx of mostly Central European homesteaders and squatters.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/ca-ab-vi.html (812 words)

	Holocaust Survivors: Encyclopedia - "Vilna Ghetto"
		No rumors of their fate reached Vilna; it was thought they were sent to work in the east.
		At that point about 2500 Jews were left in Vilna in the Kailis and HKP labor camps, four thousand old men woman and children were sent to extermination camps, and 3700 men and women were sent to labor camps in Estonia and Latvia.
		On July 13, 1944 Vilna was liberated by the Soviet army, but ten days earlier the Jews in the local labor camps had been taken to Ponary to be killed.
	www.holocaustsurvivors.org /data.show.php?di=record&da=encyclopedia&ke=91 (660 words)

	Resistance: Uprising in the Vilna Ghetto of Poland
		Resistance: Uprising in the Vilna Ghetto of Poland
		Vilna was a typical ghetto in Northeastern Poland.
		The final plan of the partisans in Vilna was formed after the untimely death of the leader Wittenberg.
	cghs.dade.k12.fl.us /ib_holocaust2001/Ghettoes/resistance/vilna_uprising.htm (510 words)

	Local Wonders Vilna Alberta Map
		Vilna is the home of the world's largest mushroom while Glendon boasts the world's largest pyrogy.
		Vilna, Alberta was settled in 1907 by Central European homesteaders and squatters.
		Vilna is one of several rural communities the trail passes through which provide complete services for the traveller.
	www.localwonders.com /LocalWonders/Alta/Areas/VilnaMap.htm (730 words)

	All About Vilna
		Vilna is more than just another UTN town.
		Vilna Farm is mainly a truck farm, though there is a donkey hitched out behind the house and I have some goats as well and plenty of bee hives.
		Vilna Chat is currently in operatition so we can bypass the citizens only telegraph network if enough tourists sign on.
	tacheiru.us /zcsv/vilna1.html (1217 words)

	Vilna
		Vilna's main street buildings still stand testament to Vilna's rich and storied past, retaining both the architectural history of a true Alberta boomtown and the pioneering spirit of its people...
		Historic Vilna is located in the east-central Alberta County of Smoky Lake, approximately 1 1/2 hour’s drive from Edmonton on Highway 28, 3 1/2 hours drive south from Fort McMurray and 1/2 hour drive west from the Town of St. Paul.
		The Vilna District was opened in 1907 by an influx of mostly Central European homesteaders and squatters.
	www.touralbertamainstreets.ca /vilna.htm (660 words)

	Ghettoes: Judenrate - Vilna
		The Vilna Judenrat was established with extreme difficulty, as those who were selected as members by the Rabbi Simeon Rosowski refused the position.
		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.
		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.
	cghs.dade.k12.fl.us /ib_holocaust2001/Ghettoes/judenrate/vilna/default.htm (1365 words)

	Vilna's Got a Golem
		For Vilna's Got a Golem is about the politics of resistance, and about the complex problems of its theatrical representation - problems that we, as audience members, share by our very act of watching.
		The actors we see are staging (on the stage-within-a-stage of David P. Gordon's set) a play about the Jews of Vilna in 1540, a time of rampant anti-semitism, for an audience of Jews of Vilna in 1899, when the actors and the audience alike have just experienced yet another murderous round of pogroms.
		Rather, Vilna shows us that making theatre, and even watching it, is as politically potent and as ethically charged as direct action.
	www.english.upenn.edu /~cmazer/vilna.html (801 words)

	"One of Vilna’s Own Trains a Lens on the City - Forward.com"
		Since she left before Vilna was ransacked and the Jews were ghettoized, Van Doren felt a sense of guilt, as well as the burden to actively remember the people who weren’t as lucky, and the storied place she left behind.
		It offers viewers a picture of Vilna at its apex, its pre-war best, when culture reigned supreme and members of the Jewish community were involved with a variety of clubs and unions including sports, choirs, Zionism, the Bund and TOZ medical care for all Jews.
		Van Doren is currently in the process of working on a companion book of photography to the film with her husband John Van Doren, a writer and professor, to whom she has been married for 51 years.
	www.forward.com /articles/one-of-vilna-s-own-trains-a-lens-on-the-city (554 words)

	Eliyahu's Branches: The First Four Generations of the Vilna Gaon and His Family
		Khiena of Pinsk daughter of Eliyahu Gaon of Vilna and Khana of Keidan, born 1748, Vilna, Lithuania, married (1) Zalmen Zelig Chinitz, born 1735, Vilna, Lithuania,son of Aharon Zev Abarbanel and Tova ?, died 1803, Pinsk, Byelorussia,married (2) Moshe of Pinsk, son of Yehuda Leib of Pinsk and Nekhama ?, died 1836, Pinsk, Byelorussia.
		Yehudah Leib Vilner son of Eliyahu Gaon of Vilna and Khana of Keidan, born 1764, Vilna, Lithuania, married daughter of Avraham of Serhei and Esther Jaffe, born Alinka, Lithuania,.
		Tauba of Dubrovno daughter of Eliyahu Gaon of Vilna and Khana of Keidan, born c.1768, Vilna, Lithuania, married Uri Shraga Feibush of Dubrovno, son of Shlomo ?, ABD Dubrovno.
	www.avotaynu.com /gaontree.html (3308 words)

	>>Our Family Story <<
		A census taken in 1765 showed the Jewish population of Vilna and its suburbs as 3887.
		Throughout the nineteenth century, Vilna played a central role in the cultural life of the Jews of Eastern Europe, as well as being a center of Torah studies.
		The capture of Vilna by Germany on Yom Kippur of 1916 sparked the beginning of a period of shortages, hunger, unemployment and forced labor.
	www.ourfamilystory.net /Vilna.html (529 words)

	Vilna Ghetto Uprising, definition - Zionism and Israel -Encyclopedia / Dictionary/Lexicon of Zionism/Israel/Middle ...
		Vilna Ghetto Uprising - Revolt against the Nazis led chiefly by Zionist groups in 1943, by Yitzhak Wittenberg of the Communist youth and Abba Kovner of
		In July 1943, Wittenberg, the commander of the F.P.O., was arrested at a meeting with the head of Vilna's Judenrat, Jacob Gens probably due to treachery of Gens under Nazi threats.
		Of all the Jews of the Vilna ghetto, the 250 survivors represent the largest group of those who were transported and survived the war.
	www.zionism-israel.com /dic/Vilna_Ghetto.htm (1709 words)

	The Vilna Shul \| vilna_shul_page.htm
		The Vilna Shul, its beautiful sanctuary quiet for 20 years, rings out again with the sounds and songs of Jewish tradition and culture.
		Havurah on the Hill is a group of young Jewish Bostonians ages 18-39 (and the young at heart) that gather at Boston's historic Vilna Shul for communal Shabbat meals, monthly Friday night and holiday learning services, classes, and lectures.
		The BCJH - http://www.BCJH.org -is a non-profit organization whose mission is to restore the Vilna Shul and rededicate it as a center for exploring the rich traditions of the American Jewish experience through exhibits and programs.
	www.vilnashul.com /vilna_shul_page.htm (0 words)

	LitvakSIG Vital Records Indexing Project
		I am pleased to announce the vital records for the city of vilna for the year 1861 were distributed to qualified donors.
		The first Vilna vital records translations have been received from the translator - the births for the year 1861 are now being proofed.
		The Vilna vital records require translation and prior to that, sufficient funds must be secured to meet the costs involved.
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	VILNA GAON (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rabbi Elyahu ben Shlomo Zalman (1720-1797): The Vilna Gaon was the leading Jewish scholar in the world of his time, and he isregarded as one of the greatest geniuses of all of Jewish history.
		It was the Vilna Gaon's influence that led to the modern yeshiva system--a constantly regenerating source of wisdom, ethical development and wholesome values.
		Toward the end of his life, the Vilna Gaon attempted, unsuccessfully, to move to the land of Israel.
	www.aish.com /seminars/tunneltour/time/l03tln01.htm (125 words)

	Kovno, Vilna, and Vitebsk
		The walk to Vilna was a lot harder then they thought because it was either too hot or too rainy.
		The horses they had were struggling because they were not use to walking for 15 miles for 6 hours a day.
		Vilna was captured on June 28, but it did not provide much for the armies needs.
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	Vilna Ghetto (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 1939, Lithuania received Vilna in exchange for a defense pact and the presence of Soviet troops within Lithuanian bases.
		The people of Vilna did not hear that the war had begun until seven hours after the German invasion, by then they were already on their way to Vilna.
		Many chose to stay in Vilna with their families while many went of on foot, by vehicle, or by train.
	ghetto.actiweb.com /vilnaghetto.html (1118 words)

	Battle of Vilna : Napoleonic and Revolutionary Wars : Bonaparte
		With the French still trying to bring a hard-to-locate Russian army to a decisive battle, captured documents pointed Napoleon Bonaparte towards Vilna.
		To take advantage of the fortuitous intelligence, the Emperor ordered Marshal Murat to take two cavalry corps, backed by 60 horse-artillery pieces, and pin any Russian force in the vicinity of the town.
		Vilna was now in French hands, but its warehouses and bridges had been destroyed.
	www.napoleonguide.com /battle_vilna.htm (96 words)

	The Partisans of Vilna (1986) - PopMatters Film Review
		The nurse, deeply disturbed, told the story to a respected doctor and member of the Judenrat, who immediately responded that she was not in her right mind, as such a thing could not possibly happen.
		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.
		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.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/p/partisans-of-vilna.shtml (1249 words)

	Shtetl: Lubavitcher Rabbi's Memoirs
		The Rabbis of Vilna, as soon as they realized the position, called a meeting of the heads of the community and pointed out to them that should the noblemen ever return, they would blame the Jews for taking over their land and property.
		When Vilna became the center of battle between the Russians and the Poles in the year 5415 (1655), the two brothers were already advanced in age.
		As the Cossacks advanced nearer and nearer, the brothers arranged for the Jews of Vilna to be provided with wagons so that they could pack their belongings and remove with their families to a place of safety.
	www.ibiblio.org /yiddish/Book/lrm/lrmvilna.html (4234 words)

	Experts venture to reclaim damaged sacred texts in Vilna (12-20-1996)
		Lithuanian leaders and some in Vilna's surviving Jewish community of about 4,000 argue that the texts must stay in the city, even if it means building a state-of-the-art library building with essential climate control features to prevent further deterioration of the texts.
		Second is to microfilm the numerous organizational records, letters and personal correspondence from the Jewish community from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
		But with all the complex and delicate political negotiations that lie ahead, Nadler's sense of urgency rises when discussing the missing Vilna Torah scrolls, perhaps the greatest symbol of survival of the Vilna Jews.
	www.jewishsf.com /bk961220/ivilna.htm (994 words)

	Welcome to the Vilna Golf Course!
		Vilna's Historic Pool Hall & Barbershop is now open Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays - call 636-3620 to confirm.....
		Under the management of new owners Frank Banham and Teresa Mason, Vilna Golf Course has rapidly improved from its early roots as a sand green course to one of the most popular grass green courses in the area.
		Located just 1 mile east and 1 mile north of Vilna, (160km NE of Edmonton) the course conveniently borders both Bonnie Lake Resorts and Bonnie Lake Campground.
	www.historicvilna.ca /golf.htm (258 words)

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