Motke Zeidel was only 17 when he was captured hiding in the Vilna Ghetto, Lithuania. He assumed that he would soon be executed but instead he was taken first to a Gestapo prison and then ...

a 19-year-old Jewish girl who inspired the heroic Jewish resistance movement in the Vilna ghetto during the Holocaust. After the Nazis invade Poland, a fierce and fearless Vitka escapes to the ...

It survived World War II — with some of its staff smuggling its artifacts back to the Vilna ghetto. In America its scholars helped create the field of Jewish studies and launch the klezmer revival.

Mr. Wogler was in his late fifties. A survivor of the Vilna ghetto, he came to Paris after World War II and was a member of the cultural commission of the French section of the World Jewish Congress.

Bender’s conclusion, in which she compares the history of the Białystok community and ghetto to several other major communities, including Warsaw and Vilna, makes the volume an even richer ...