Yad Vashem

Surviving the Holocaust

Survivors of the Holocaust share their stories thereby ensuring that what they experienced is never forgotten or denied.

The Untold Stories of the Holocaust in the USSR

Testimonies about the mass murder sites of Jews in the occupied areas of the former Soviet Union during the Holocaust. The testimonies are part of the "The Untold Stories", a research project of Yad Vashem's International Institute for Holocaust Research, which tells the hitherto untold stories of the destruction of the Jews of the Former USSR.
http://www1.yadvashem.org/untoldstories/index.html

Insights and Perspectives from Holocaust Historians

Short lectures delivered by Yad Vashem historians that delve deeply into the realms of Holocaust research, remembrance, education, and commemoration. The project is being carried out with the support of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Here Their Stories Will Be Told

These testimonies are taken from online exhibitions on the Yad Vashem website commemorating Jewish communities before the Holocaust, their fate during the Holocaust and the various ways the few who survived attempted to rebuild their lives and commemorate what was lost. This ongoing project is with the support of the support of The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany

The Story of the Jewish Community of Balti:
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/communities/balt­i/index.asp

The Story of the Jewish Community in Mir:
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/communities/mir/­index.asp

A Jewish Community in the Carpathian Mountains -
The Story of Munkács
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/communities/munk­acs/index.asp

Monastir. The Story of a Sephardic Community in Macedonia:
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/communities/mona­stir/index.asp

19 km from Auschwitz. The Story of Trzebinia:
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/communities/trze­binia/index.asp

The Story of the Jewish Community of Vilna

On the eve of the Shoah the Jewish community of Vilna was the spiritual centre of Eastern European Jewry. In the Jewish world it was known as "The Jerusalem of Lithuania" - a spiritual centre of the first order.
On the 22nd of June 1941 the Germans invaded Soviet territory and entered Vilna on the 24th of June. Around 60,000 Jews lived in Vilna where they constituted 30% of the total population. The community of Vilna which had flourished for hundreds of years was decimated during the Second World War.
To learn more about The Jewish community of Vilna, enter: http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/vilna/index.asp

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