… 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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…Elkhanan Elkes to his children, 19 October 1943 Translation by Moshe Dor, with corrections by Dr. Joel Elkes, 1997 At Viliampoli Ghetto (Kovno…

…; returning to Kaunas in 1936 because he was worried about his mother and sisters; his deportation to the Kaunas ghetto in 1941; performing forced labor until…

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… ability to survive depends on me only. After a while, the rule came out to go into Kovno ghetto. I, on the other hand, the minute when I heard what happened…

… systematic massacres of Jews throughout the country. By November 1941, the surviving Jews of Kovno were imprisoned in a sealed ghetto surrounded by barbed wire…

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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…

…Devintasis fortas (Kaunas, Lithuania)…

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…04/14/1998 SILKINAITĖ, Vera Lithuania Documentation Project Lithuanian RG-50.473*0003 In this interview Vera Silkinaitė, born in 1925 in Kaunas…

…. Eventually, the Lubocki family was forced to live in the Kovno ghetto, and continued to work hard labor. In 1943, the ghetto was cleared out, and the Lubockis…

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…, life in the Kaunas (Kovno) ghetto, and his time in the Stutthof concentration camp. Included in this collection is the original copy of Meilach’s memoir…

… Czechoslovakian Jews being transported into the Kaunas ghetto to enter its forced labor brigades in 1941; having little awareness as to what was happening to…

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… I – I found a – a – a friend of – of the family, with the name of Bernard Picard(ph), who also in Kovno ghetto. And he was a brigadier, the other…

…Elena Tumasonienė, born in Šeduva, Lithuania in 1924, discusses being told antisemitic stories as a child; studying nursing in Kaunas, Lithuania when…

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…? Elena Tumasonienė: Dėl to, kad visi žinojo, visi šnekėjo, čia gi ne Kaunas, ne koks didelis miestas, visi viską... Vokiečiai rinko žmones, kad važiuotų…

…Jewish ghettos--Lithuania--Kaunas--History--20th century.…

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…--Lithuania--Kaunas. Jews--Persecutions--Lithuania--Kaunas--History--20th century. Prisoners of war--Lithuania--Kaunas--Registers. Jewish ghettos--Lithu Kaunas…

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… Leiba, Dovydo R-731-3 Kaunas Hard-Labour prison. 1942, 1943, 1944 Personai files of prisoners 3417 - 5 pp. Bachrackiene-Mejerovieaite Veronika, Richardo…

…Dov Levin, born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1925, describes his family; moving into a ghetto in Slobodka, a suburb of Kaunas, with his family in August…

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… gave us places. We have to go to the ghetto and we could take everything, everything, and I remember from Kovno to Slobtka were a very, very, very long…

… losing most of his family’s belongings; the brutal treatment of Jews by Lithuanians; the establishment of a ghetto in Kaunas that held about thirty…

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… and Holland, but here they...they were getting very resistance, you see. So the German himself had an interest in the Kovno ghetto operation because it…

… brother dying in the war; the Russians arriving in Kaunas and firing the Jews from their jobs; the Germans invading and setting up a ghetto; moving to the…

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… accuracy. 3:30:39 When Sara was already in the Kaunas ghetto, she received information that the ghettos in smaller towns were being liquidated very quickly…

… model for a clothing store before the war; living with her husband, son, and parents in the “big” Kaunas ghetto; digging trenches for the Nazis, which…

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…. And they took over, you know. Slovodkians (ph), they took, you know Kovno, all Lithuanian. They put us in the ghetto. Our house was on was on -- from…

… was forced into the Kovno ghetto in the summer of 1941. She wrote about daily life, the struggle for food, political events, and her fears as she…

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… Commandant in the ghetto again, a Lithuanian. He is not a good man. (a dog [in German]) January 29 (Friday) They are shipping Poles out of Kaunas. They are…

… in the uprising in 1940; the arrival of the German forces; guarding the Kovno ghetto; trying to save a young Jewish woman and her mother who decided to…

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… Stasys Jokūbauskas, a military officer, talks about his duties guarding the Kovno (Kaunas) ghetto and also discusses his participation in two separate mass…

… received treatment for typhoid fever; working in a field hospital; traveling back to Vilna via Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania, and eventual arriving in Svencionys…

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…:06:26 Liquidation of the ghetto. Some were sent to Vilna; the majority to Kovno. The train stopped in Ponar. One of the Jews alerted the rest to flee…

…Uri Chanoch, born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1928, discusses being one of three children; his annual visits with his younger brother, Daniel, to his…

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… forest. In Kaunas, while visiting the site of the former ghetto, everything comes back to Uri, and he sobs. They visit the 9th Fort where they see victims…

… to Vilna (Vilnius, Lithuania) and returning to Kovno; being transported to the Slobodka ghetto in 1941; his father dying of a heart attack; family…

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… Samuel’s father died of a heart attack. Other family members were killed in the Ninth Fort. Samuel remained in the Kovno ghetto until the spring of 1944…

… Kaunas ghetto; witnessing the deportations from the ghetto; escaping the ghetto with his mother and father in November 1943; hiding in a farmer's hay wagon…

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… school was after we came back to Kovno, after the liberation from the ghetto, after living in to that hole, then I had school for about six months, but…

…Jewish ghettos--Lithuania--Kaunas.…

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… Kovno ghetto realized what their fate was. 52.18 Bunkers ['malines'] begin being dug to hide. 9.02.58 At the end of 1943, the Kovno ghetto was officially…

…; being forced into the Kovno ghetto; being deported in July 1944 with her mother along with other women to German work camps; and feeling fortunate to have…

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…. Hanni's family was eventually forced into the Kovno ghetto, and on October 16, 1941 the ghetto was officially closed. In July of 1944 Hanni and her mother…