Jacob Gens: A harsh dictator or a beloved leader? 2024 — Association of Jews of Vilna and vicinity in Israel

Dr. Leah Price, retired researcher at Yad Vashem, author and book editor gave a lecture in April 2024 about Jacob Gens, chairman of the Judenrat in the Vilnius ghetto. For his firm stand against the Germans in the ghetto and for his belief that one must not bow one's head. About Gens as a popular leader who can be trusted. On the action of the 84 elders on July 17, 1942, on his protection of the lives of the children in the ghetto, on the action in the ghetto of the town of Ushmiana on October 27, 1942, on the complexity of his role and the dilemmas he faced until he was killed by the Germans shortly before the liquidation of the ghetto in 1943.