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Wilno Voivodeship (1926–1939) Location of Wilno Voivodeship (red) within the Second Republic of Poland (1938). The Wilno Voivodeship ( Polish: województwo wileńskie) was one of 16 Voivodeships in the Second Polish Republic, with the capital in Wilno (now Vilnius, Lithuania). The jurisdiction was created in 1926 and populated predominantly ...
The perushim ( Hebrew: פרושים) were Jewish disciples of the Vilna Gaon, Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, who left Lithuania at the beginning of the 19th century to settle in the Land of Israel, which was then part of Ottoman Syria. They were from the section of the community known as misnagdim (opponents of Hasidic Judaism) in Lithuania.
Governatorato di Vilna (it) contea di Vilnius (it) comune distrettuale di Vilnius (it) RSS Lituania (it) RSS Lituana Confederasion połaco-lituana voivodato di Vilnius (it) Vilnius County (en) Grandogado de Lituània Lituània Lituània Sentrałe RSS Lituan-Bełarusa Vilna Governorate-General (en) (1794 (Zulian) –1912)
Abraham ben Abraham (Hebrew: אברהם בן אברהם, lit."Avraham the son of Avraham") (c. 1700 – 23 May 1749), also known as Count Valentine (Valentin, Walentyn) Potocki (Pototzki or Pototski), was a purported Polish nobleman (szlachta) of the Potocki family who converted to Judaism and was burned at the stake by the Roman Catholic Church because he had renounced Catholicism and had ...
Ponary massacre site on the map of the Holocaust in Poland (top right corner, near Wilno), marked with a white skull. The massacres began in July 1941, as soon as SS Einsatzkommando 9 arrived in Vilna on 2 July 1941. Most of the actual killings were carried out by the Ypatingasis burys (Lithuanian volunteers) 80 men strong.
The Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye ( Yiddish: פֿאַראײניקטע פּאַרטיזאַנער אָרגאַניזאַציע; " United Partisan Organization "; referred to as FPO by its Yiddish initials) was a Jewish resistance organization based in the Vilna Ghetto in Lithuania that organized armed resistance against the Nazis during ...
Gaonul din Vilna. Rabinul Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman, cunoscut sub numele de Gaonul (Învățatul) din Vilna ( idiș דער װילנער גאון, poloneză Gaon z Wilna, lituaniană Vilniaus Gaonas) sau Elias din Vilna, sau sub acronimul ebraic HaGra (" HoGaon Rabbenu Eliyahu ") sau Elijah Ben Solomon (n. 23 aprilie 1720, Sialiec (d ...
