Vilna gaon
Vilna Jewish leadership betray their heritage - opinion
Vilna was the center of the Zionist movement in the Soviet Union, hosting the Hibat Zion movement, Poalei Zion Party, and Chovevei Zion conventions.
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Lithuania to release Euro coin honoring the Vilna Gaon
According to the website of the Bank of Lithuania, the commemorative 10-Euro coin will be released in the second quarter of 2020.
Archaeologists find inscriptions in destroyed Vilna synagogue - watch
In addition, during the excavation a prayer book survived the Holocaust, hundreds of coins from the 16th to 20th centuries and buttons of Napoleon's army, which passed through Vilna.
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"The many thousands buried here have no descendants or relatives to stand up for the integrity and dignity of their graves precisely because of the Holocaust," says a Vilnius-based scholar.