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You searched for: Keyword JEWS Remove constraint Keyword: JEWS Digital Availability Has Supplementary Materials Remove constraint Digital Availability: Has Supplementary Materials Dates 1931-1937 Remove constraint Dates: 1931-1937 Key Cities Kaunas Remove constraint Key Cities: Kaunas
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1. 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
… the war, he lived in Munich, and worked as the head of a factory. He was also involved with the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Bavaria and the…
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 … papers; documents regarding Asriel’s involvement with the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Bavaria and the Jewish Committee Munich; correspondence…
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2. Council of the Jewish community of Kaunas, Lithuania (Fond 1231)
Document | Accession Number: 2004.688 | RG Number: RG-26.006M
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1940
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… Lithuanian rabbis ( file 49-166); statistics about Jewish agricultural workers; unemployed Jews; Jewish primary schools; birth, death, marriage, and divorce…
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 …; card files of Lithuanian rabbis ( file 49‐166); statistics about Jewish agricultural workers; unemployed Jews; Jewish primary schools; birth, death…
3. Irving Newman papers
1995.A.0753.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0753.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1949
… unsuccessful. As persecution against Jews by the Nazis increased, the family was moved into the Kovno (Kaunas) ghetto. In 1940, Irving was arrested with several…
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 … between 1945 and 1949. These articles are primarily in Yiddish and describes the situations of surviving Jews in Germany. Also included in this collection…
4. Union of Jewish Fighters for Lithuanian Independence (Fond 593)
Document | Accession Number: 2014.324 | RG Number: RG-26.055
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1939
…World War, 1914-1918--Jews--Lithuania.…
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 …. Organized chronologically. Indexing terms Žydų karių, dalyvavusių Lietuvos nepriklausomybės atvadavime, sąjungos. World War, 1914-1918--Jews--Lithuania. World…
5. Jewish religious and philanthropic associations, Kaunas (Fond 1143)
Document | Accession Number: 2015.69 | RG Number: RG-26.058
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1940
…Jews--Lithuania--Kaunas--History--20th century.…
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 … philantropic organizations, Kaunas, Lithuania. Indexing terms Jews--Lithuania--Kaunas--History--20th century. Religious communities--Lithuania--Kaunas--History…
6. George Birman papers
1993.41.2 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 38
Document | Accession Number: 1993.41.2
Date:
inclusive: 1930-2002
… Jews fled Kovno, including Abel and Hirsch. German soldiers apprehended them and forced their return to Kovno. In June and July, there were violent…
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 …. They lived at the Rothschild Hospital and worked for the illegal immigration of Jews from Eastern Europe to Palestine. In August 1946, George served as…
7. 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
… refused. Elkes was deported to Dachau in July 1944. There, he continued to offer medical care to fellow Jews until he succumbed to starvation brought on…
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 … to fellow Jews until he succumbed to starvation brought on by a hunger strike. He died on October 17, 1944 at the age of 65. Due to his stature, he was…
8. Sara Ginaitė-Rubinsonienė papers
1996.2.6 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1996.2.6
Date:
inclusive: 1917-2018
… invasion, anti-Communist pro-German Lithuanians initiated a violent pogrom against Jews in Kovno, whom they accused of being Soviet sympathizers. Three of…
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 … initiated a violent pogrom against Jews in Kovno, whom they accused of being Soviet sympathizers. Three of Sara's uncles, Isaac, Solomon and Abrasha…
9. Bagriansky-Zerner family collection
2013.503.1.1 Box 1 Folder 32 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2013.503.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-circa 2013
bulk: 1935-1950
…, often assisting German mobile killing squads, in which thousands of Jews were murdered. Kaunas was occupied on July 24. Rosian's paternal grandfather…
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 … trying to avoid the Polish Armija Krajowa, who also targeted Jews in the region. Following liberation, Bagriansky worked in Moscow representing Lithuanian…