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1. 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
…Rosian Bagriansky was born on October 23, 1935, in Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania, to Paulius and Gerta Chason Bagriansky. Paulius was an attorney and an…
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 …, their daughter, Rosian Bagriansky Zerner, and their extended family. Included is information about their pre-war life in Lithuania, their life under…
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2. Simon Goldsmith photographs
2013.172.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2013.172.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1942-1949
…Simon Goldsmith was born in Vilnius, Lithuania on October 25, 1918 to Moshe and Chaja Leah Goldsmith. Simon had three brothers: Joseph, Pinchas, and…
3. Guggenheim and Smali families papers
2016.395.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2016.395.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1989
…Malka Pugacka Smali (1919-1992) was born in Merkinė, Lithuania, to Daniel Tanchum Pugacki (d. 1941) and Sara Alte Pugacka (nee Garbol). She had six…
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 …: approximately 1900-1989 Accession number: 2016.395.1 Creator: Guggenheim (Family : Frankfurt, Germany) Additional creator: Smali (Family : Merkinė, Lithuania…
4. Antonina and Jonas Paulavičius photographs
1996.A.0159.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0159.2
Date:
inclusive: 1926-circa 1983
…Jonas Paulavičius worked as a carpenter and lived in Panemunė (Kaunas, Lithuania) with his wife Antonina and his children Danutė and Kęstutis. He had…
5. Irving Newman papers
1995.A.0753.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0753.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1949
…Isaak Nementschik (later Irving Newman) was a Jewish accountant born in April 1907 in Ukmerge, Lithuania. He married Lea Bernstein (Lisa Newman, 1910…
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 … documents concerning Irving Newman (formerly Isaak Nementschik, 1907‐1984), a Jewish accountant living in Kaunas, Lithuania, and his family. Irving, his…
6. Regina Gruber and Tuvia Sheres papers
2016.204.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.204.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1998
bulk: 1943-1968
…Teodor Scheres (Tuvia Sheres) was born on February 6, 1920, in Vilna (Vilnius), Lithuania), to Jewish parents Efraim and Peshe (Pesia) Liliansky…
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 …, Tuvia (Vilnius :Lithuania) Extent: 0.5 linear feet (1 box) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place…
7. Sara Ginaitė-Rubinsonienė papers
1996.2.6 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1996.2.6
Date:
inclusive: 1917-2018
…Sara Ginaitė-Rubinsonienė (1924-2018) was born Sara Ginaitė on March 17, 1924 in Kovno, Lithuania (Kaunas, Lithuania) to Josif Ginas (1892-1941…
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 … incorporated into this collection. 1 Related archival materials: Satchel carried by partisans in Lithuania (1996.2.5), Lithograph (2018.444.1) Processing history…
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  • Series 1: Sara Ginaite-Rubinson papers 1917-2005
    • File 6: Photographs 1917-1945
8. Meir Shapiro family photographs
2013.227.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2013.227.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1947
… Vilno, Poland (currently Vilnius, Lithuania). Neither woman survived the Holocaust. Miriam was killed in the Ponary Forest in 1941 and Musia was killed…
9. 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
…Mascha Berkmann (née Rutstein, later Marsha Berkman, 1920-2007) was born in Raseiniai, Lithuania to Rachel (née Seidman) and Hershel Rutstein. She…
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 …) Berkmann, Mascha (Raseiniai :Lithuania) Extent: 0.5 Linear feet (12 folders) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul…
10. Rosenszajn, Herszkowicz, and Dworzecka families papers
1999.271.2 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1999.271.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1909-1948
…, Lithuania). Arkadiusz studied chemistry at the university in Warsaw during the late 1930s. With the outbreak of World War II, he returned to Vilna. Months…
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 … Herszkowicz family of Łódź, Poland; and the Dworzecki family of Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania). The families’ papers include studio portraits and candid…
11. Jacob Robinson papers
2013.506.1 Box 4 Folder 15 Image 21
Document | Accession Number: 2013.506.1
Date:
inclusive: 1915-1977
bulk: 1939-1977
… Lithuania), where he founded a Hebrew secondary school in 1919 and directed it until 1922. Having learned Lithuanian, Robinson moved to Kaunas, practiced as a…
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 … who immigrated to the United States from Lithuania in 1940. Includes material related to the Institute for Jewish Affairs, which Robinson co-created…
12. Blogier, Wekselman, and Wides families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.514.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-1969
bulk: 1945-1969
…Betty Wides Blogier (1923-2014) was born Basia Wides on 22 July 1923 in Ukmerge, Lithuania to Mendel Wides and Reizel Milner. She had three siblings…
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 … (Family : Bedzin, Poland) Additional creator: Wides (Family : Ukmerge, Lithuania) Extent: .25 linear feet (12 folders, 1 book enclosure, 1 oversize box…
13. 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
… 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…
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 … Royale des Beaux-Arts. Her family immigrated to Palestine in 1934. At the beginning of the war, while visiting her sister, Muta, in Lithuania, Esther was…
14. 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
…Dr. Elkhanan Elkes (1879-1944) was a Jewish physician who, during the German occupation of Lithuania, assumed the leadership of the Jewish community…
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 … the German occupation of Lithuania, assumed the leadership of the Jewish community in the Kovno (Kaunas) ghetto. Born in Kalvarija, Lithuania, Elkes…
15. Josef Baur papers
2017.675.1 Box 3 Folder 23 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2017.675.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1954
…. The album also includes images of Wilna (now Vilnius, Lithuania), photographs of Jewish prisoners near Novoyel'nya, Belarus forcibly removing a statue…
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 … also includes images of Wilna (now Vilnius, Lithuania), photographs of Jewish prisoners near Novoyel'nya, Belarus forcibly removing a statue of Lenin…
16. Ratafia family papers
2005.198.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2005.198.1
Date:
inclusive: 1871-2011
bulk: circa 1930-1964
…Tema Ratafia (1925-2013, later Tema de Ratafia) was born in Wilno, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania) to Moise Ginzburg (b. 1886) and Rachel Rubenstein…
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 … number: 2005.198.1 Creator: Ratafia, Tema (Vilnius :Lithuania) Additional creator: Ratafia, Lazarz (Warsaw :Poland) Extent: 1 linear foot (3 boxes…
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  • Series 3: Photographs Circa 1920-1958
    • File 7: Mackiewicz, Josefa Circa 1955
      • Pages: 1
17. Syma Crane papers
1997.A.0373 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 43
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0373
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1997
…Syma Crane (b. 1921) was born in Vilnius, Lithuania (Wilno, Poland) to Chaim and Basia Minc. Syma’s parents and sisters Sonja Minc Lipofsky and Chaya…
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 … Biographical note Syma Crane (b. 1921) was born in Vilnius, Lithuania (Wilno, Poland) to Chaim and Basia Minc. Syma’s parents and sisters Sonja Minc Lipofsky and…
18. Carl Heinz Rosner papers
2016.308.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2016.308.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2010
bulk: 1930-1957
…Frieda Rosner (née Fryda Zeidshnur, 1930-2000) was born on 4 July 1930 in Wilno, Poland (modern day Vilnius, Lithuania) to Zelman (1895-1960) and…
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 … experiences of his wife Frieda Rosner and her parents Zelman and Judith Zeidshnur of Wilno, Poland (modern day Vilnius, Lithuania). Included are biographical…
19. Jacobson and David families papers
2014.424. 1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2014.424.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1895-1959
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… Johannesburg; and Paula to the small Transvaal town of Carolina. Paula married Israel Sandler from Lithuania, and in 1937 their daughter Milly married Jack…
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 … small Transvaal town of Carolina. Paula married Israel Sandler from Lithuania, and in 1937 their daughter Milly married Jack Bennie whose family was also…
20. William Schulkin papers
1992.183.10 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1992.183.10
Date:
inclusive: circa 1908-1946
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Lithuania.…
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 …, Asher Malin, Bernard Holocaust, Jewish (1939‐1945) Holocaust victims. Holocaust, Jewish (1939‐1945)‐‐Lithuania. Jewish families‐‐Lithuania…