Lithuanian librarian Ona Simaite took food to Jews in the Vilna ghetto, helped hide many Jews outside the ghetto, and saved valuable Jewish literary and historical materials. Vilna, 1941. Photograph »

Ignac Shepetis helped members of the Jewish underground escape from the Kovno ghetto and join partisans in the Rudniki Forest near Vilna. Kovno, Lithuania, 1943-1944. Photograph »

A group of Jewish partisans in the Rudniki forest, near Vilna, between 1942 and 1944. Photograph »

Located on Ulica Stara (Old Street), outside the Vilna ghetto, this building was used as a safe house by the ghetto resistance. Vilna, after July 1944. Photograph »

Abba Kovner, commander of Vilna ghetto's United Partisan Organization (FPO), poses shortly after liberation. After July 13, 1944, Photograph »