This is a TVS I on the world. I'm John Bachelor with my good colleague. That is McCotter, American

Greatness, and we welcome into the studio the dusty one Indiana

online the spread of dust is a little thick sometimes there Indiana she takes his

hat off he puts the bullwhip down he throws down his bag of tricks,

and he pulls out a surprise, that is?

Yes, Indiana.

Not even the depredations of Hitler and Stalin

could eradicate all the remnants of the great synagogue of Vilna's

with the way they could they.

Absolutely right.

There are amazing discoveries, excavations of the great synagogue of Vilna, which dated back to the 17th and 18th century.

It was constructed and added to over years.

It was surrounded by 12 other synagogues it was really a center of the Jewish life and had the ritual baths community institutions

Religious Studies Centers it was the center of community life.

And as I said, that

in study houses all centered around it

and the community council building,

it was destroyed by the Nazis and then the Russians

came in and destroyed whatever was remained what remained and obviously there are very

few people who had any memory but But now through the use of radar,

ground penetrating radar, they have shown

the remains of the synagogue below the surface

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