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1. Oral history interview with David J. Selznick
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.447.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0211
Date:
interview: 1990 September 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; 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…
2. 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
… 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…
3. Meilach Lubocki memoir
1995.A.0272 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 141
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0272
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1995
…. 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…
4. 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
… 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…
5. 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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 … established. OK. The ghetto was-- first of all, as the Germans came in, they got involved in the government of Lithuania, of Kaunas. And it was one decree after…
6. 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…
7. Rudolph Daniel Sichel papers
2003.149.1 Box 6 Folder 15 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 2003.149.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1903-1978
bulk: 1934-1952
… Hartheim, the war in Russia, and the Kovno Ghetto. The sketchbook in the collection was presented to Sichel by prisoners of war Kodak, Weigand, and…
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 … Hartheim, the war in Russia, and the Kovno Ghetto. The sketchbook in the collection was presented to Sichel by prisoners of war Kodak, Weigand, and…
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8. 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…
9. Solomon Baicovitz collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.158
Date:
publication/distribution: 1986
… antisemitism, the establishment of the Kovno ghetto, and life in the ghetto, including witnessing several aktions. He created a hiding place and managed to hide…
10. Abraham and Lilly Malnik collection
Document | Accession Number: 2016.291.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-circa 2008
bulk: 1935-1950
bulk: 1992-2008
…Jewish ghettos--Lithuania--Kaunas.…
11. Oral history interview with Lucy Lavon
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1719 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1719
Date:
interview: 1984 November 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Union and then by Nazi troops in 1941; the formation of a ghetto in Kovno; her work for the Jewish Council under Dr. Elkhanan Elkes and the relative…
12. Oral history interview with Rosalyn Chorowski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.655 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0655
Date:
interview: 1985 April 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… (Kaunas, Lithuania) from 1939 to 1941; being interned in the Kovno ghetto from 1941 to 1944; her life in the ghetto, including the food, factory work, and…
13. 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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 … very much. When you think about a town like Kaunas that has about 35,000 Jews that supported four Jewish high schools, two Jewish newspapers, a slew of…
14. 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
… thereafter being shot at the Seventh Fort; his and his mother’s confinement to the Kaunas ghetto, where his mother saved them by pretending to be married to a…
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 … belongings, but...uh...that you couldn't take with you and move to that designated area around Kovno which was called the ghetto. And my mother and I...we just…
15. 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
… of the family hardware store and the loss of basic rights by Jewish citizens. Ms. Rassen recalls the family's forced move to a ghetto in Kovno, the…
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 … -- IN ONE PART OF 13 KOVNO WAS ____________. THAT WAS THE GHETTO OF THE JEWS. 14 BEFORE THEY TOOK OVER KOVNO THE LITHUANIANS -- YOU KNOW 15…
16. Oral history interview with Chana Friedman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.681 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0681
Date:
interview: 1985 April 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Chana Friedman (née Kons), born on March 10, 1907 in Kovno, Poland (Kaunas, Lithuania), discusses her internment in Kovno ghetto in 1943; the taking…
17. Oral history interview with Aaron Kobel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.706 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0706
Date:
interview: 1990 July 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… forced move by Russian troops into the Slavodka (a suburb of Kovno) ghetto in 1940. Mr. Kobel describes the round-up and deportation of Jews by Nazi troops…
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 … moved out on our own. Correct. And did you move into the ghetto area? No. We lived in the city. In the city of Kovno. And to the ghetto area, we moved…
18. 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
…Jewish ghettos--Lithuania--Kaunas.…
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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…
19. Fritz Weinschenk papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0291.3
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1998
…Kaunas (Lithuania)…
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 …, Poland Niemeier, Heinrich Janinagrube labor camp (subcamp of Auschwitz) Rauca, Helmut Kaunas, Lithuania Rischke, Robert Biesiadka, Dęba, and Huta…
20. 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
…The interview describes Ms. Gordon's experiences in the Kovno ghetto from 1941 - 1945. Ms. Gordon describes the liquidation of the ghetto, and her…
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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…