Jacob ben Abraham Kahana, rabbinical author; died in Vilna 1826.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tail Section » Tail Section Now Accepting Fan Submissions!] Reference

On the way to the frontier we stopped for a farewell visit in Vilna, where my mother had a brother.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Promised Land] Reference

It seemed there was a place called Vitebsk, and one called Vilna, and Riga, and some others.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Promised Land] Reference

Most of their relatives who had remained in Vilnius (then called Vilna) had perished in the Holocaust.    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

Joffre was the unofficial Soviet ambassador to Germany for a short time, and led a powerful propaganda organization in Vilna.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I] Reference

Vilna is slighted in my description.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Promised Land] Reference

Vilna, and Libau the people were sullen and afraid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference

Vilna: 1938; Di fliglen fun mut (Wings of Courage).    From Wordnik.com.  [Helene Khatskels.] Reference

Her formal studies were at a German school in Vilna.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rivke Savich Golomb.] Reference

L. KING: Do any of these people desire to visit Vilna?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live Weekend: GaWaNi Pony Boy Discusses 'Of Women and Horses'; Rich Cohen Discusses 'The Avengers' - October 14, 2000] Reference

Vilna: 1931; A zumer in Amerike (A Summer in America).    From Wordnik.com.  [Helene Khatskels.] Reference

Vilna and Grodno, which are supposed to be impregnable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915] Reference

Vilna: 1931; A rayze keyn England (A Journey to England).    From Wordnik.com.  [Helene Khatskels.] Reference

L. KING: They were called "The Partisans of Vilna," right?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live Weekend: GaWaNi Pony Boy Discusses 'Of Women and Horses'; Rich Cohen Discusses 'The Avengers' - October 14, 2000] Reference

I'm from Vilna, Lithuania, where my father's father was born.    From Wordnik.com.  [Josh Ruxin: What it Means to Be American] Reference

She and her husband fled to Vilna and then to Kovno in Lithuania.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rose Shoshana.] Reference

After the war Ramot returned to Vilna and began to study medicine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bracha Ramot.] Reference

With the German invasion of the USSR in June 1941, Vilna was captured.    From Wordnik.com.  [Haika Grosman.] Reference

In the course of the mass murders, the Germans erected two ghettos in Vilna.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vitka Kempner-Kovner.] Reference

With the outbreak of war Treger returned to Vilna and joined the Halutz group.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zelda Nisanilevich Treger.] Reference

Together with her fellow partisans, Treger participated in the liberation of Vilna.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zelda Nisanilevich Treger.] Reference

"We will take the train at some smaller station -- Dvisk, Vilna -- wherever we can.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Cross] Reference

Persecution of Jews began soon after the German occupation of Vilna on June 24, 1941.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vitka Kempner-Kovner.] Reference

Swiecicki, a canon of Vilna, wrought a whole volume of them from good memoirs, in 1604.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference

He went to Vilna to study and there met and married Sima Shabad (Vilna 1873 – Moscow 1929).    From Wordnik.com.  [Sulamif Messerer.] Reference

They ran through Vilna, on through flat stretches of Courland to Libau, where they saw the sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference

The goal of the escape routes to the Naroch forest lay about two hundred kilometers from Vilna.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zelda Nisanilevich Treger.] Reference

Rivke Savich, second of four children, was probably born in a village near Vilna on May 5, 1905.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rivke Savich Golomb.] Reference

Between January and May 1942 she visited Vilna, Kovel and Bialystok where she led a Dror Seminar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frumka Plotniczki.] Reference

In 1918, Khatskels left Vilna and moved to Moscow to learn about the new Soviet educational system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Helene Khatskels.] Reference

Genius thereminist Clara Rockmore was born Clara Reisenberg in Vilna (now Vilnius), Lithuania, in 1911.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Twenty-Eight] Reference

Vilna, the capital of Lithuania, on the 4th of March, 1482, being twenty three years and five months old.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference

COHEN: Vilna is very much -- I say it's like a set for an old musical that they never tore down the stage.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live Weekend: GaWaNi Pony Boy Discusses 'Of Women and Horses'; Rich Cohen Discusses 'The Avengers' - October 14, 2000] Reference

And than after all that I went, with a map Vitka had made for me of Vilna and survivors still in Vilna that I was to see.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live Weekend: GaWaNi Pony Boy Discusses 'Of Women and Horses'; Rich Cohen Discusses 'The Avengers' - October 14, 2000] Reference

In 1927 she studied at the Yidisher Lehrer Seminar in Vilna and after matriculating from the seminary taught for one year in Warsaw.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rivke Savich Golomb.] Reference

The women transported the baby to Bialystok and turned her over to her father, who reached Bialystok with a group smuggled from Vilna.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lonka Korzybrodska.] Reference