YIVO’s satellite office in New York became their official headquarters in 1940, when the main office in Vilna was taken over by the Soviets and then the Nazis. YIVO’s Warsaw office was forced to close ...

(New York Jewish Week) — In 1941, a group of intellectual Jews confined to the Vilna ghetto — writers, scholars, poets and the like — were forced by the Nazis to plunder their own people’s treasured ...