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1. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC), Kaunas office (Fond 1236)
Document | Accession Number: 2015.71 | RG Number: RG-26.059
Date:
creation: 1923-1940
…American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC), Kaunas office (Fond 1236)…
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 … American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC), Kaunas office (Fond 1236) RG-26.059 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul…
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
…Council of the Jewish community of Kaunas, Lithuania (Fond 1231)…
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 … 1 Council of the Jewish Community of Kaunas, Lithuania (Fond 1231) RG‐26.006M United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul…
3. Jewish religious and philanthropic associations, Kaunas (Fond 1143)
Document | Accession Number: 2015.69 | RG Number: RG-26.058
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1940
…Jewish religious and philanthropic associations, Kaunas (Fond 1143)…
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 … Jewish religious and philanthropic associations, Kaunas (Fond 1143) RG-26.058 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg…
4. Singer style Soviet treadle sewing machine and table of the type used in Kovno ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1997.129.1
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1917-approximately 1950
…Singer style Soviet treadle sewing machine and table of the type used in Kovno ghetto…
5. Damaged photograph of a group of male friends in Kovno, Lithuania that survived the destruction of the Kovno ghetto.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 84623
Date:
1930 - 1939
…Damaged photograph of a group of male friends in Kovno, Lithuania that survived the destruction of the Kovno ghetto.…
6. 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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 … wartime experiences as a Lithuanian partisan in the Kovno Ghetto and Rudninkai Forest, and her postwar profession as a professor and Holocaust scholar…
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7. Henia Lewin photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2006.144
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1946
…Henia Wisgardisky (now Henia Lewin) is the daughter of Jona and Gita (Salat) Wisgardisky from Kovno, Lithuania. In the summer of 1941 soon after the…
8. Zvi Griliches photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 1999.83
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1949
…Zvi Griliches (born Grigory Griliches, also Harry or Garik, 1930-2000) was born September 12, 1930 in Kovno, Lithuania. His father, Efim, was trained…
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 …; Kovno, August 1935”; dated: August 1935; location: Kovno, Lithuania; in German .3 Photographic postcard; black and white image of young woman, wearing…
9. Alexander Zeidel photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2006.124.1
Date:
1930-1939
…The Zeidel lived in Kovno before World War II.…
10. Zachary Gruzin papers
Document | Accession Number: 2000.288.1
Date:
creation: circa 1925-1945
…Zachary Gruzin (1925-2017) and his twin brother, Charles Gruzin (1925-1941/42) were born on February 27, 1925 in Kovno, Lithuania to Solomon Gruzin…
11. Eisenstadt family papers
2015.583.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.583.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1957
…Rachel Eisenstadt (1918-1990, née Bak, later Burstein) was born in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania to Abraham (1899-1944) and Batya Bak. She had one…
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 … Eisenstadt family of Pinsk, Belarus, and post‐war photographs of Boris Eisenstadt and his wife Rachel Eisenstadt (née Bak, later Burstein) of Kovno (Kaunas…
12. Hashomer Hatzair in Lithuania (RG-4-2)
Document | Accession Number: 2014.113 | RG Number: RG-68.163
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1980
Subtitle:
השומר הצעיר בליטא
… papers on children's house (Kinderhaus) in Kovno, reports on Jewish scouts movement in Kovno, Yaakov Amit's correspondence and legacy, Yekheskel Ben Tour…
13. Bernard Stern papers
Document | Accession Number: 1995.27
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1947
…, Josheved, Shara, Smul, and Solim. Bernard became a pharmacist and lived in Kovno (Kaunas, Lithuania). He met Cipora Kagan while living there and they married…
14. Malowist family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2000.23
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1942
…. Szymon was able to obtain legal immigration certificates for Palestine, but had no way to get there. He then learned about the Japanese consul in Kaunas…
15. Abraham and Lilly Malnik collection
Document | Accession Number: 2016.291.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-circa 2008
bulk: 1935-1950
bulk: 1992-2008
…Abraham (Abe) Malnik was born on January 31, 1927, in Kovno, Lithuania, to Josef and Feiga Malnik. Josef worked as a barber and Feiga as a beautician…
16. 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
… became active in the Communist Party and moved to Kovno (Kaunas). She returned home in 1938 to care for her ailing father who died the following year…
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 … detention camp in 1947 describing a scene she witnessed in the Kovno ghetto in 1942 in which a little girl’s grandmother suggested miracles were still…
17. 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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 … Soviet and German occupation, including internment in the Kaunas ghetto and their escape from it, the hiding of Rosian with various Lithuanian…
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18. 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…
19. Damaged photograph of Dov Levin, a Jewish school boy in pre-war Kovno, that was preserved through the war by a friend in the sole of her shoe.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 88943
Date:
Circa 1939 - 1941
…Damaged photograph of Dov Levin, a Jewish school boy in pre-war Kovno, that was preserved through the war by a friend in the sole of her shoe.…
20. 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…
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  • Series 3: Series 3: Biographical materials, 1939-2002 (bulk 1939-1969)
    • File 1: Birman, Abel, 1940-1957, 1965-1969
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