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1. Edwin Geist: Werke
Recorded Sound | Accession Number: 2013.503.2.2 | RG Number: RG-91.0196
Date:
Recorded: 1973 February 24
…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…
2. Oral history interview with Rachel Gordon
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.764 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0764
Date:
interview: 1990 November 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Persecutions--Lithuania--Kaunas.…
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 …. So they stopped. They occupied Lithuania. In 1941, we lived in Kovno, which is the capital of Lithuania. And they put us in a ghetto. This was in a…
3. 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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 …, September-November 2014 Biographical note Edwin Ernst Moritz Geist (1902-1942) was a German composer, originally from Berlin, who moved to Kaunas, Lithuania…
4. 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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 … Lithuania that she met Paul Bagriansky, and the two were married in 1934. During the occupation of Lithuania, she lived in Kaunas, in the ghetto there, but…
5. 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…
6. Oral history interview with Goldie Rassen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.724 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0724
Date:
interview: 1990 November 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Kaunas (Lithuania)…
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 … WASNT ENOUGH SCHOOLING 24 IN THE SURROUNDING IN THE SHTETL SO WAS SENT TO KOVNO. 25 KOVNO WAS THE CAPITOL OF LITHUANIA. THERE WERE SCHOOLS 26 AND THERE…
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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 … born Sara Ginaitė on March 17, 1924 in Kovno, Lithuania (Kaunas, Lithuania) to Josif Ginas (1892-1941) and Rebecca Virovichiute Giniene (1896?-1945…
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  • Series 1: Sara Ginaite-Rubinson papers 1917-2005
    • File 6: Photographs 1917-1945
8. 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…
9. Oral history interview with Murray Gordon
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.828 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0828
Date:
interview: 1989 December 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The interview describes Mr. Gordon's life in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania, his experiences in the Kovno ghetto and with Zionist underground, and the…
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 … was six years old. Then we moved to Kaunas, which was Kovno, which was the capital of Lithuania at that time. Did you go to school in Kaunas? Yes, I…
10. 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
… 1941, Mascha, Hillel, Cecilia, and Mascha’s mother Rachel were sent to the Kaunas ghetto in Lithuania. Mascha did forced labor work on a military airport…
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 … sent to the Kaunas ghetto in Lithuania. Mascha did forced labor work on a military airport. They were then sent to Kauen‐Šančiai subcamp after the…
11. Oral testimony of Abe Malnik
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.281.7 | RG Number: RG-50.009.0007
Date:
interview: 1988-1989
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Abe Malnik discusses the German invasion of Kaunas, Lithuania when he was 13 years old; his family and upbringing; the creation of the ghetto; his…
12. Meilach Lubocki memoir
1995.A.0272 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 141
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0272
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1995
…Meilach Lubocki was living with his family in Kovno (Kaunas) Lithuania when the Germans invaded in 1941. He lived with his wife Esther, two children…
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 … Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024‐2126 Abstract: The memoir of Meilach Luboski of Kaunas, Lithuania describes his memory of the German invasion…
13. 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…
14. 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
…Kaunas (Lithuania)…
15. Oral history interview with Abraham Malnik
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.385.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0145
Date:
interview: 1990 May 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Abraham Malnik, born on January 31, 1927 in Kaunas, Lithuania, describes his childhood and family; the Russian invasion of Lithuania in 1940 and…
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 … Kovno, Lithuania in 1927, January 31st. Q: And you had wanted to dedicate this tape to someone? A: Yes. This tape I would like to dedicate...uh...to my…
16. Oral history interview with Gidon Arye
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0326 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0009
Date:
interview: 1989 July 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Aktions and a transfer of inmates to Kaunas, Lithuania; Nazi soldiers retreating from the Allies throughout July 1944; going into hiding with a local…
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 … the bed and that I was not interested in what the others were doing. A second announcement was made, that people would be taken to Kovno. My father…
17. Oral history interview with Masha Loen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.387.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0138
Date:
interview: 1990 May 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Masha Loen, born in July 1930 in Kaunas, Lithuania, describes growing up in a religious family with three sisters; her father hiding her family and…
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 … your name and where and when you were born? A: My name is Masha Loen. I was born in Lithuania, Kovno, 1930. I lived near Kovno in a suburb called…
18. Oral history interview with Ralph Codikow
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.416.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0055
Date:
interview: 1990 June 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ralph Codikow, born in 1930, in Kaunas, Lithuania, describes his family; the German occupation of Lithuania in 1941 and his brother shortly…
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 … Ralph Codikow. Q: Where and when were you born? A: I was born April 9th, 1930, in Kovno, Lithuania and lived in Panemon, Lithuania all my life until I was…
19. Oral history interview with Eva Dimont Igdalski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1470 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1470
Date:
interview: 1983 April 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Eva Igdalski (née Dimont), born in Kaunas, Lithuania, discusses being sent to live in the Kovno (Kaunas) ghetto in 1942 and her experiences there…
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 …4CS INTERVIEW WITH Eva Dimond Ygaisky INTERVIEWER DATE PLACE Kovno ghetto TRANSCRIBER Debi Glogower and Shelia Harbet Okay. First if you give me your…
20. Oral history interview with Tzvi Griliches
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.495.7 | RG Number: RG-50.061.0007
Date:
interview: 1981 October 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish ghettos--Lithuania--Kaunas.…
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 … was born in September 1930 in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania, where his father, who had a degree from a German university, worked in a cigarette and tobacco…