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1. Morris Sklarsky papers
Document | Accession Number: 2021.123.1
Date:
creation: 1945
… deported to Stutthof and then Auschwitz where he perished in 1944. Chiena was deported from the Kaunas ghetto in July 1941 to Vaivara concentration camp in…
2. Oral history interview with Leon Shachnovski
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0159.1 | RG Number: RG-50.472.0001
Date:
interview: 1946 July 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… forced labor at the airdrome along with Russian prisoners near Kovno; his deportation to Dachau concentration camp and his time working as a "specialist…
3. Oral testimony of Abe Malnik
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.281.7 | RG Number: RG-50.009.0007
Date:
interview: 1988-1989
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Abe Malnik discusses the German invasion of Kaunas, Lithuania when he was 13 years old; his family and upbringing; the creation of the ghetto; his…
4. Oral history interview with Sol Lurie
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0039 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0031
Date:
interview: 1998 November 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Sol Lurie discusses the change in relationships between Jews and Christians in Kaunas, Lithuania once the war started; when Poland was invaded by…
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 … weren’t there, you haven’t been there? RL: No. He [indecipherable] Q: This is just -- his brother sent these photographs? SL: I was in -- I was in Kovnos…
5. Calel and Michael Kurzer collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.187.1
… [born in Utena, Lithuania in 1928] who were deported from the Kovno ghetto and to the Dachau concentration camp in Germany where they were interned and…
6. Oral history interview with Moshe Kravitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.272 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0272
Date:
interview: 1996 January 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Moshe Kravitz, born in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania in 1931, describes his family, including his middle class parents and his older brother; attending a…
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 … M O S H E K R A V I T Z ( RG.50 * 120 * 0272) (Start Tape 1) 1:00 to I:06 Family Background: He was born in Kovno in 1931, to middle class parents…
7. Oral history interview with Chaim Gurewitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.55 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0055
Date:
interview: 1993 October 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… life in Kaunas in the 1930s; his life in the Kaunas ghetto, how they lived, what they ate, and the tasks they were assigned; executions in the ghetto…
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 ….31 Put in so-called ‘filtration’ camp by Soviets where interrogations carried out. 4.35 Arrives in Kaunas. No acquaintances around. 4.37 Arrives in Vilnyas…
8. Oral history interview with Meir Tzoref
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.334 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0334
Date:
interview: 1998 January 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to Dachau; the roll calls and food in the camp; his work building of an underground factory; the death march; their liberation and returning to Kovno…
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 … direction of the 9th Fort, through Kovno’s main road. Before arriving at the Fort, they were directed through a dirt path to a storage house where they were…
9. Oral history interview with Hanni Krispin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0129.34 | RG Number: RG-50.029.0034
Date:
interview: 1993 October 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… aware of antisemitism in Memel in the 1930s; moving to Kaunas, Lithuania in 1938 to attend a Jewish school; trying to immigrate to Palestine; how the…
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 …-Semitic experiences and was active in Jewish organizations. In 1938, she had to move to Kaunas to attend a Jewish school. Her story then parallels the…
10. Esther Lurie papers
1995.A.0989.1 Box 3 Folder 13 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.1 | RG Number: RG-24.022
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1995
… experience in the Kovno ghetto, Stuthoff concentration camp, and Leibitsch forced labor camp. The collection also includes correspondence, exhibition and…
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 …, correspondence, subject files, and photographs relating to Esther’s wartime experience in the Kovno ghetto, Stuthoff concentration camp, and Leibitsch forced labor…
11. Oral history interview with Abraham Malnik
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.385.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0145
Date:
interview: 1990 May 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Abraham Malnik, born on January 31, 1927 in Kaunas, Lithuania, describes his childhood and family; the Russian invasion of Lithuania in 1940 and…
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 … Kovno, Lithuania in 1927, January 31st. Q: And you had wanted to dedicate this tape to someone? A: Yes. This tape I would like to dedicate...uh...to my…
12. Elkhanan Elkes collection
2011.419.8Box 1 Folder 7 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2011.419.8
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1954
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… married Miriam Albin. After serving as a physician in the Russian army, he opened a private practice and eventually became one of Kovno's leading…
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 …, he opened a private practice and eventually became one of Kovno's leading physicians. In 1923, he was apppointed head of the department of internal…
13. Asriel and Mascha Berkmann papers
2016.202.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2016.202.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1989
bulk: 1945-1948
…. They were then sent to Kauen-Šančiai subcamp after the ghetto was turned into the Kaunas concentration camp. Her daughter was taken from her in 1943 and…
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 … ghetto was turned into the Kaunas concentration camp. Her daughter was taken from her in 1943 and perished with many other children from the camp. In 1944…
14. Rada Żydowska Kowno (Sygn. 260)
Document | Accession Number: 2018.314.1 | RG Number: RG-15.634
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1944
Alternate Title:
Judenrat in Kowno
Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 1939-1944. Judenraty
… Kaunas concentration camp, March 1-May 2, 1944, and a certificate of employment.…
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 … Ghettogemeinde Vilijampolė; Documents of Efroimas Ošri, 1941-1944. Indexing terms Ošri, Efroimas. Kauen (Concentration camp) Jews--Lithuania--Kaunas--History--20…
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 …, sygn. 214 Jasło, sygn. 215 Kamieńsk, sygn. 224 Kielce, sygn. 274 Kobierzyn, sygn. 259 Końskie, sygn. 220 Kowno (Wiliampol), sygn. 260 Kraków, sygn. 21816…
15. Oral history interview with Ya'akov Visgorditzki
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.301 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0301
Date:
interview: 1996 October 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ya’akov Visgorditzki, born in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania on October 19, 1931, describes being one of five children; attending a Jewish school; the…
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 …Visgorditzki, Ya’akov RG.50.120*0301 One Video Cassette In Hebrew Abstract: Ya’akov Visgorditzki was born in Kovno on October 19, 1931. He was one of…
16. Oral history interview with Simon Taitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1271.139 | RG Number: RG-50.119.0139
Date:
interview: 1983 April 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Simon Taitz, born in Königsberg, Germany, describes having a successful watchmaking business in the suburbs of Kaunas, Lithuania; hiding with a…
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 … was a-- You mine, you mine. Which camp was that? This was in Kovno Gefangenenlager. Have you seen sometimes, when you take away a chick from a chicken…
17. Oral history interview with Miriam Gutman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.67 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0067
Date:
interview: 1996 July 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Miriam Gutman, born in 1923 in Kaunas, Lithuania, discusses her father, Shmuel, who was a self-employed painter; her father’s death in 1937; her…
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 …RG-50.407.0067 Interview: Miriam Gutman, July 1996 Summary Miriam Gutman, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1923 [says exact date unknown], describes: her…
18. Oral history interview with Jack Brauns and Avraham Tory
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0316
Date:
interview: 1991 September 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish councils--Lithuania--Kaunas.…
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 …. He married my mother was was from Riga, and they both settled in Kaunas in 1940 and my ...excuse me...my father became...uh...interested in contagious…
19. Inscribed wooden spoon and patch saved by a former Jewish Latvian slave labor camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.3 a-b
Date:
received: 1965
commemoration: 1945 January 23-1965 January 23
… study-exhibition tour throughout Europe. She was visiting her sister, Muta, in Kovno (Kaunus), Lithuania, when World War II broke out and she was trapped…
20. Solomon Baicovitz collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.158
Date:
publication/distribution: 1986
…Consists of typed testimony, 10 pages, written by Solomon Zalman Baicovitz, originally of Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania. He describes pre-war…