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Vilnius - Wikipedia The form Vilna made its way into Western European languages and for a long time served as the standard designation for the city of Vilnius, especially in historical and diplomatic texts
Vilna | Holocaust Encyclopedia 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
Vilna - Jewish History Once called the Jerusalem of Lithuania, the city of Vilna was a vibrant center of Jewish life for centuries until the Nazis wiped it out in the Holocaust
The Story of the Jewish Community of Vilna | Yad Vashem Approximately 60,000 Jews lived in Vilna at the time, constituting 30% of the total population The community of Vilna, which had flourished for centuries, was decimated during World War II
Vilnius | History, Map, Points of Interest | Britannica In 1795 Vilnius passed to Russia in the Third Partition of Poland, where it became the capital of Vilna Governorate During this time of Russian imperial rule, it became a locus of both Polish national aspirations and the nascent Lithuanian nationalist movement
Vilna - Jewish Virtual Library Vilna was a world center for Yiddish culture, and a Yiddish daily and evening press, numerous weekly and other political, literary, educational, and scientific journals were published there
Kehilalinks Page -- VILNA The town of Vilna (in Lithuanian, Vilnius, and occasionally also known as Wilna) was founded at the beginning of the 14th century, approximately in the year 1320 Very rapidly, it became a central town in Lithuania, both as its strategic and commercial headquarters
Vilna: Home of My Post-Memory | Jewish Museum Milwaukee From the Vilna Gaon and the Talmudic academies that elicited its nickname ‘The Jerusalem of Lithuania’, to the secular Yiddish culture that made the city synonymous with Jewish creativity in the early 20 th century, Vilna had been a shining crown in the glories of Ashkenazi life