Keywords: family background; family history; family histories; ancestry; ancestors; great-grandparents; great-grandfather; railway workers; 1860s; roots; heritage; Lithuania; Eastern Europe; great-grandmother; nobility; nobles; Russian Empire; family occupations; family professions; grandfather; railways; cooks; father; mother; parents; mailman; postal worker; Soviet Union; exile; grandmother; electromechanics; theater; theatre

Keywords: Šnipiškės, Vilnius; childhood; childhood home; childhood neighborhood; Russian language; grandmother; grandparents; teenage years; adolescence; Vilnius, Lithuania; Old Town, Vilnius; Snipiskes; Vilne; Vilna; Vil'na; Wilno; 1990s; architecture; buildings

Keywords: Catholics; Christians; mother; grandmother; Catholic Church; Vilnius, Lithuania; religion; religious observance; Christmas; Christianity; Catholicism; Easter; Church of the Holy Mother of God; religious school; Wilno; Vil'na; Vilna; Vilne

Keywords: Lithuanian language; Russian language; childhood; Vilnius, Lithuania; Vilne; Vilna; Vil'na; Wilno; friends; friendships; Jewish community; Vilnius Sholem Aleichem ORT Gymnasium; schools; parents

Keywords: politics; political atmosphere; family; childhood; voting; news; media; radio; television; internet; Lithuania

Keywords: childhood; kindergarten; school; elementary school; middle school; education; gymnasium; high school; Vilnius University; bachelor's degree; master's degree; cultural anthropology; cultural history; heritage protection; teenage years; Jewish studies; Holocaust education; Holocaust studies; Holocaust; Shoah; khurbn; khurbm; Jewish culture; Lithuanian Jewry; Lithuanian history; Jewish history; Grigorijus Kanovičius; Grigory Kanovich; Lithuanian Jewish writers; Moyshe Kulbak; Icchokas Meras; Avrom Sutzkever; Abraham Sutzkever; Avrom Sutskever; interwar period; Szmerke Kaczerginski; Shmerke Kaczerginski; Moshe Kulbak; literary history; Jewish writers; Yiddish writers; Poland; history education

Keywords: Jewish culture; parents; childhood; Jewish stereotypes; Jewish history; Lithuanian history; Lithuanian Jewry; antisemitism; anti-Semitism; Holocaust; Shoah; khurbn; khurbm; Jewish heritage; heritage tourism; memory; Jewish community

Keywords: Avrom Sutzkever; Avrom Sutskever; Abraham Sutzkever; "Griner akvarium" ("Green aquarium"); books; poets; literature; Czesław Miłosz; elementary school; teachers; university; school; high school; gymnasium; reading; professors

Keywords: Lithuania; currency; EU; European Union; 2000s; childhood; euros; litas; travel; Belorussia; United States; U.S.; Chicago, Illinois; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; St. Louis, Missouri

Keywords: Vilnius Yiddish Institute; Yiddish studies; Jewish studies; education; Lithuania; cultural historian; academia; father; university; interwar period; family background; grandfather; family history; master's degree; Yiddish language; Yiddish culture; wooden synagogues

Keywords: Ponary massacre; Lithuania; history; Ponary forest; Lithuanian history; Jewish history; Holocaust; Shoah; khurbn; khurbm; Nazis; memory; Jewish culture; Yiddish culture; heritage protection; Jewish artists; Rafailas Karpis; synagogues; Jewish cemeteries; cultural history

Keywords: Yiddish studies; education; Yiddish language; Yiddish culture; academia; immigration and migration; Lithuania; travel; United States; Lithuanian culture; cultural literacy; living abroad; English language

Keywords: Vilnius, Lithuania; Vilnius Yiddish Institute; Yiddish language; Yiddish studies; Jewish studies; academia; education; Yiddish summer programs; Yiddish education; Yiddish learning; language learning; Vilna; Vilne; Vil'na; Wilno

Keywords: Yiddish words; Yiddish language; Yiddish culture; grandmother; Lithuanian language; linguistics; cognates; Yiddish phrases; Yiddish expressions; Yiddish Book Center