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New research uncovers how Lithuania’s largest Holocaust massacre was mostly forgotten
40 prisoners managed to crawl through the passage and flee the largest Nazi killing site in Lithuania. In the Ponar forest south of Vilnius, 70,000 Jews were shot over massive pits. The massacres ...
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The national park that draws mushroom hunters from around the world
"In Lithuania, we have a specific word for this sensation. Nugrybauti: lost in the forest whilst hunting for mushrooms." To a nation so fixated with foraging, these woods in Djūkija National Park ...
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Once a beacon of the Yiddish speaking world, Lithuania's Jews work to keep it alive
During that time, 95% of Lithuania’s Jews were murdered, including 70,000 Jews from the Vilnius ghetto, who were executed and ...
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Fania Brantsovsky, last living Vilna ghetto partisan resistance fighter, dies at 102
From the first days of the Nazi occupation of Lithuania, they began taking Jews from Vilnius to be killed in the nearby Ponar forest. Over 100,000 people would be killed there, including 70,000 ...
The national park that draws mushroom hunters from around the world
In Lithuania’s Dzūkija National Park, losing yourself amongst the pine trees while hunting for mushrooms is an occurrence so common it has its own word: "nugrybauti".