(JNS) Excavations of the Great Synagogue of Vilna, Lithuania, destroyed by the Nazis during the Holocaust, have revealed the floor of the main prayer hall, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced ...

A rendering of the Great Synagogue in Vilna. New and exciting discoveries are being revealed these days in the archaeological excavations of the remains of the Great Synagogue of Vilna which was ...

(JTA) — A new excavation has unearthed parts of the Great Synagogue of Vilna, once the oldest and most important building for Lithuanian Jews before it was destroyed by the Nazis and razed by the ...

In Lithuania’s capital city of Vilnius, the remains of a once-great synagogue sat crumbled under a Soviet-era school. Now, decades after the center for Jewish life in the country was looted, burned ...

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Jon Seligman of the Israel Antiquities Authority stands on the colorful floor of the main prayer hall of the Great Synagogue of Vilna, which was destroyed by the Nazis and has been undergoing ...