ABSTRACT
In 2008 the author conducts a series of research trips to Lithuania to find the living traces of its once thriving Jewish presence and to explore what might have been for his own ancestors, had they not managed to find their way out. In exploring his own ancestral links to the region, in 2008 he conducted a series of research trips to Vilnius to find the traces of its once thriving Jewish presence. He met with and interviewed a group of people representing a broad range of post-Holocaust experiences. These transcripts, artefacts and places were all subjected to a process of interrogation to establish the relationship between the life told and the evidence of its documentation. His multidimensional methodology includes: Narrative ethnography, Psychogeography, Sensory ethnography, Bricolage. Hitler's assault on the Jews of Eastern Europe was simultaneously a war against Yiddish language and culture as the creation of European Jewry.
