The second edition of a book entitled “Saving the Torah from the Fires of the Catastrophe” came out in Vilnius with funding by businessman Vytautas Vainikonis and thanks to the initiative of chairman of the Lithuanian Jewish Community Simonas Alperavičius and chief rabbi of Vilnius and Lithuania Chaim Burstein. As indicated in the foreword, the book is dedicated “to the memory of those who died, and for the well-being of the living”, and gives a comprehensive account of how Lithuania's yeshivas were saved during the Second World War. After travelling a difficult road from Poland and Lithuania to China and then to the USA and the Holy Land, members of a yeshiva group who miraculously survived the Holocaust then directed all their energy to restructuring the life of Jewish communities in America, Israel and other countries.

As the first edition of this book (1987) has become a bibliographical rarity, its second edition is both timely and vital.

Lietuvos žydų bendruomenės laikraštis “Lietuvos Jeruzalė” 2006.