Milda Jakulytė-Vasil is a historian and heritage researcher specializing in the study of Lithuanian Jewish cultural heritage, memory, and Holocaust history. After completing her master’s degree in history and heritage conservation at Vilnius University, she has been continuing her academic activities as a doctoral student at the Faculty of History of Vilnius University since 2025.

Milda has been working in the field of museology and heritage research for more than two decades. From 2007 to 2015, Milda worked at the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Historical Museum, where she developed the project "Holocaust Atlas in Lithuania" – the first systematic research and map of Holocaust sites. From 2015 to 2025, she was the chief curator of the Lost Shtetl – Šeduva Jewish History Museum, responsible for the concept and content of the exhibition.

Since 2021, she has been the director of the public institution "Litvak Cemetery Catalog Maceva."

Sergey Kanovich is a Vilnius born writer and heritage advocate who founded Maceva in 2011 to preserve and document the Jewish cemeteries of Lithuania.

His work has significantly contributed to raising public awareness of Jewish heritage in Lithuania and internationally.

Beyond Maceva, Sergey is known as a founder, visioner and a leader of the major Jewish museum in Lithuania. He is an author of multiple essays on history, memory, and moral responsibility, continuing the cultural legacy of his father, the Litvak novelist Grigory Kanovich.

Mr. Kanovich’s achievements have been justly recognized by the Sugihara Foundation, which nominated him Person of Tolerance in Lithuania in 2016, and by the President of Lithuania, who decorated him with the State Medal of Honor for the Merit of Protecting Jewish Heritage in Lithuania in 2018.