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1. Lyda Bagriansky Geist and Edwin Geist collection
2013.503.2 Box 2 Folder 7 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2013.503.2
Date:
inclusive: 1919-2013
…Edwin Ernst Moritz Geist (1902-1942) was a German composer, originally from Berlin, who moved to Kaunas, Lithuania after he was expelled by the Nazis…
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 … father, Paul Bagriansky, whose sister was married to Geist. Languages: German, English, Lithuania, Russian Administrative Information Access: Collection is…
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2. 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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3. Shoag family papers
2017.334. 1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 32
Document | Accession Number: 2017.334.1
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1997
bulk: 1939-1940
…Wolf Shoag (Szoag, 1906-1983) was born in Wilno, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania) to parents Moses and Fagel (née Kozlovsky) on December 24, 1906. He had…
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 … Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: Correspondence and documents pertaining to the extended Shoag family of Wilno (Vilnius, Lithuania) and…
4. 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…
5. Russian Military Medical Museum Archives records
1996.A.0297 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0297 | RG Number: RG-22.035
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1945
…; and reports and eyewitness accounts of Nazi atrocities in Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine.…
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 … Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine. Languages: Russian, English Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, but is stored…
6. George Birman papers
1993.41.2 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 38
Document | Accession Number: 1993.41.2
Date:
inclusive: 1930-2002
… October 2, 1887, in Kovno (Kaunas) Lithuania. When Hirsch was 6 years old, the family moved to Klaipeda, Lithuania. In the early 1930s, Zlata fell ill. She…
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 … documenting George Birman’s childhood in Lithuania, his confinement with his father, Abel Birman, in the Kovno (Kaunas) ghetto, his work at the Kedahnen…
7. 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…
8. Dr. Aharon Pick diary
2000.132 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2000.132
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1944
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Dr. Aharon (Aaron) Pick (also spelled Pik or Pieck) (1872-1944) was born in Kėdainiai, Lithuania and practiced medicine and participated actively in…
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 … Dr. Aharon Pick “Notes from the Valley of Death” Memories written in the Shavli Ghetto (Lithuania) In the years 1942, 1943, 1944 (Hebrew Calendar…
9. 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…
10. 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…
11. 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
12. Rabinowitsch family papers
2011.443.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 94
Document | Accession Number: 2011.443.1
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1948
…World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Lithuania.…
13. 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…
14. Elkhanan Elkes letter
Document | Accession Number: 1999.86
Date:
creation: 1943 October 18-1943 November 11
…Dr. Elkhanan Elkes (1879-1944) was a Jewish physician who, during the German occupation of Lithuania, assumed the leadership of the Jewish community…
15. Tamar Lazerson-Rostovsky diaries
2017.103.1 Book Enclosure Folder 1 Image 44
Document | Accession Number: 2017.103.1
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1947
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Tamar Lazerson-Rostovsky (born Tamara Lazerson) was born in 1929 in Kovno, Lithuania to Wolf and Regina Lazerson and had two brothers, Rudolph (b…
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 … good rumors today. They say that Lithuania will be Independent, but that all men will be drafted. It is said that the Germans have been crushed at…
16. 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…
17. 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…
18. 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…
19. 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…
20. 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…