The Great Synagogue of Vilnius, Lithuania was heavily damaged by the Nazi’s during World War II. From preliminary analysis, remains of the synagogue’s walls have been located in Grid #2 and further analysis with EKKO_Project ...

Over 100,000 individuals were killed in Ponar Forest, Lithuania from 1941-1944. Eighty Jewish prisoners forced to burn the bodies of the victims were held in the forest for roughly a year. In an attempt to escape, they dug ...

Rhodes, Greece is widely known for the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. A portion of the island, The Medieval Old Town of the City of Rhodes, was declared a World Heritage Site due to ...

Shortly after the Nazi occupation of Lithuania in June of 1941, they began to round up the country’s Jewish population as part of the Nazi’s “Final Solution”. At Fort IX as many as 45,000 Jews and Communists were killed ...

Major Karl Plague was a German officer during World War Two responsible for saving 250 Jewish forced labor workers at HKP 562 in Vilnius, Lithuania. The 750 other workers were captured and killed by Nazi SS members on ...

The ancient city of Bethsaida is in the northern Galilee region of Israel along shores of the Sea of Galilee and is mentioned by Pliny the Elder, Josephus as well as several Biblical texts. First excavated in 1987, the ...