Observations on the Population of Vilnius: The Grim Years and the 1942 Census.

The article focuses on the census coordinated by the Germans in May 1942 in the population of Vilnius, Lithuania. The main aim of the census is to determine the number of Jews who survived the German occupation of the city. The census indicates the existence of various ethnic groups in the city. The said census reflects the annihilation of Jews under the German regime. American geographer Theodore Weeks claimed that a new Lithuanian city had arisen from the ruins of the old Polish-Jewish one.