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1. Group portrait of Jewish youth in the Kovno ghetto, who were involved in the underground.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 14718
Date:
Circa 1943 - 1944
…Group portrait of Jewish youth in the Kovno ghetto, who were involved in the underground.…
2. Under the supervision of a Soviet policeman, the charred remains of Jews from the Kovno ghetto are carried on a makeshift stretcher to a mass grave. The man in the foreground appears to be a German POW. Behind him is Moshe Volbershteyn, a member of the Zionist underground who is working for the Chevre Kaddisha, Jewish burial society.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 81123
Date:
August 1944
…. The man in the foreground appears to be a German POW. Behind him is Moshe Volbershteyn, a member of the Zionist underground who is working for the…
3. Sipo und SD Kommandant Kaunas (Fond R-1399/1)
Document | Accession Number: 2000.209 | RG Number: RG-26.047M
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1944
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Contains reports, instructions, correspondence, clippings, underground publications, registration cards, notes, name indexes, office documents…
4. Abraham Sutzkever and Szmerke Kaczergingski Collection (RG-223, Vilna Ghetto, Part 1)
Document | Accession Number: 2014.334 | RG Number: RG-67.042M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1950
bulk: 1939-1944
… ghetto, including underground publications, and materials on life in the labor and concentration camps; photographs of daily scenes in the ghetto…
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 … underground publications, and materials on life in the labor and concentration camps. Note on the Diary of Zelig Kalmanowicz The diary of Zelig Kalmanowicz was…
5. Sara Ginaitė-Rubinsonienė papers
1996.2.6 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1996.2.6
Date:
inclusive: 1917-2018
… and her family were forced into the Kovno Ghetto by August 1941. She soon joined the underground resistance group Anti‐Fascist Organization (AFO). Sara…
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 … August 1941. She soon joined the underground resistance group Anti-Fascist Organization (AFO). Sara married Misha Rubinsonas (1923-1977), an active member…
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  • Series 1: Sara Ginaite-Rubinson papers 1917-2005
    • File 6: Photographs 1917-1945
6. 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
…, he provided moral leadership, helped the ghetto's medical community, and provided tacit support to the underground. Much of the day to day running of…
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 … tacit support to the underground. Much of the day to day running of the ghetto was entrusted to his deputy, Leib Garfunkel, an attorney and former Jewish…
7. 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
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 …?]. The fifteenth year has been reached. [two x's refer to poem in small print at end of paragraph] I am waiting for the cell [underground cell? start of…
8. Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD in Riga (Fond 504)
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0085.1.6 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.05
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1944
Alternate Title:
Chief of the Security Police and SD in the Occupied Soviet Baltic Territories (Riga)
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 … units, including many Jews. Report about Polish underground movement in Vilnius. 1943-1944. 11 Data about the activities of partisan brigades in Lithuania…
9. Jewish pharmacists at work in the only pharmacy in the Kovno ghetto.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 91045
Date:
1941 - 1944
…. Segalsohn (from Memel). Aizik Srebnitzki, who was active in the ghetto's Zionist underground, kept a clandestine radio in the basement of the pharmacy for…
10. Tanya Virovich poses on a street in Kaunas where she went on a walk with her rescuer, Franute Granskyte.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 97645
Date:
May 1944
… civil ceremony in the ghetto on November 7, 1943. Misha was an active member of the ghetto underground. He headed the youth branch of the Anti-Fascist…
11. Deputy Police Chief Yehuda Zupovitz poses with his wife, Dita, in their apartment in the Kovno ghetto two weeks before his arrest.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 09112A
Date:
March 1944
…. Yehuda used his position on the police force to help the ghetto underground, in which he also assumed a leadership role. Among his resistance activities…
12. Deputy Police Chief Yehuda Zupovitz at his desk in the Kovno ghetto.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 89237
Date:
1944
…. Yehuda used his position on the police force to help the ghetto underground, in which he also assumed a leadership role. Among his resistance activities…
13. Jewish policeman next to the workshops in the Kovno ghetto once the ghetto had officially become a concentration camp. The K-L on the sign stands for "Konzentrations lager".
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 10800
Date:
Circa September 1943 - July 1944
… police, including its commander Moshe Levin and his deputies Yehuda Zupovitz and Ika Grinberg, were active in the underground resistance movement. The…
14. View of women at work in a workshop in the Kovno ghetto.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 89142
Date:
1942 - 1944
… large quantity of items to ghetto residents and the underground. Moshe Segalson, head of the workshops, reports that of the 4,000 aluminum cups and pots…
15. A group of Jews return to the ghetto after forced labor on the outside. German and Lithuanian guards search them as they enter. Jewish police stand among them.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 25143
Date:
1941 - 1944
… police, including its commander Moshe Levin and his deputies Yehuda Zupovitz and Ika Grinberg, were active in the underground resistance movement. The…
16. A group of Jews return to the ghetto after forced labor on the outside. They wait to be searched as they reenter the ghetto. A Jewish policeman holding a stick keeps the laborers in line.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 81103
Date:
1941 - 1944
… police, including its commander Moshe Levin and his deputies Yehuda Zupovitz and Ika Grinberg, were active in the underground resistance movement. The…
17. A group of Jewish men return to the ghetto after forced labor on the outside.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 25146
Date:
1941 - 1944
… police, including its commander Moshe Levin and his deputies Yehuda Zupovitz and Ika Grinberg, were active in the underground resistance movement. The…
18. A group of Jewish women return to the ghetto after a day of forced labor on the outside.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 81106
Date:
1941 - 1944
… police, including its commander Moshe Levin and his deputies Yehuda Zupovitz and Ika Grinberg, were active in the underground resistance movement. The…
19. A group of Jews return to the ghetto after forced labor on the outside. Here, they line-up to be searched. Jewish police stand among them.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 81104
Date:
1941 - 1944
… police, including its commander Moshe Levin and his deputies Yehuda Zupovitz and Ika Grinberg, were active in the underground resistance movement. The…
20. Performance of the Kovno ghetto orchestra.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 77537
Date:
1944
… underground malina (bunker) during the final liquidation of the ghetto. Michael served as the conductor of the ghetto orchestra. He was probably deported to…