The photos, dating from about 1910 through 1940, were from a Lithuanian Jewish family’s album that had been smuggled out of the city’s wartime Jewish ghetto ... and Masha in Vilna and then ...

While she hailed from a secular family, which Brantsovsky noted kept ... were herded into the cramped conditions of the Vilna ghetto. From the first days of the Nazi occupation of Lithuania ...

In 1941, a group of intellectual Jews confined to the Vilna ghetto — writers, scholars, poets and the like — were forced by the Nazis to plunder their own people’s treasured works for a Nazi ...