Plan your Visit to Yad Vashem
Image
test
Icon arrow right

Yad Vashem is open to the general public, free of charge. All visits to Yad Vashem must be reserved in advance.

July 1944, Jewish Partisans Entering the Liberated City of Vilna, Lithuania

Hundreds of young Jewish men incarcerated in the Vilna ghetto established the United Partisans Organization (FPO).  During the liquidation of the ghetto, members of the FPO escaped to the forests, fought against the Germans, and joined the Red Army in liberating Vilna.