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Identifying the Great Synagogue of Vilna in Vilnius, Lithuania
(2018-02-20)
Since 1957, the remains of the Great Synagogue of Vilna in Vilnius, Lithuania have been hidden under an elementary school. An international team of scientists used ground penetrating radar (GPR) to identify the buried ...
Discovering a Holocaust Era Escape Tunnel : GPR Investigation at Ponar, Lithuania
(2018-02-05)
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 ...