A Mysterious Family, a Destroyed Community: Piecing Together the Kaunas Litvaks
"Kaunas during its famous ‘Golden Age’ between the wars was very much a Litvak city. "Continue Reading →
Fiction – This Is Not My Sky
"Mama,” Cathy murmured into Maria's ear, “why did you give me away?”Continue Reading →
The Old Prussians: the Lost Relatives of Latvians and Lithuanians
The Latvian and Lithuanian people have the Old Prussians to thank more than anyone else for their existence.Continue Reading →
Dissidence in Our Blood: Survival in a 1984 Soviet Bunker
“You, obviously, have got to play the dissident. You Lithuanian-Americans were all dissidents to the Soviets.”Continue Reading →
The Project to Restore the 200-Year-Old Jewish Cemetery Destroyed Under Soviet Rule
Under Soviet rule, tens of thousands of Jewish gravestones were ripped from the graves they marked at the historic "Old" and "New" Jewish cemeteriesContinue Reading →