This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with a digital marketer Aivaras Vilutis, about being a 28-year-old living in Vilnius, Lithuania. The following has been edited for ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Bernard Meyer, a 39-year-old living in Vilnius, Lithuania. His job and ...

Almost all of the few thousand Jews living in Vilnius today have familial ties to people who died during the Holocaust, said Faina Kukliansky, chair of the Lithuanian Jewish (Litvak) Community.

and had been living in Vilnius since August last year. Her mother has also denied that Ms Sapega was working for Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya while in Lithuania.

The Nazis shattered that future, but decades later, the Vilnius Yiddish Institute represented a return to her roots. “She understood that she was the carrier of so much of the living Yiddish ...