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1. 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…
2. Black family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2008.289.1
Date:
1900-1912
…Consists of a postcards of pre-war Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania, which were sent by Benzion Joseph Black to Ruth (Rachel) Saiger Black around 1909. Also…
3. 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…
4. 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
… in the Kovno (Kaunas) ghetto. Born in Kalvarija, Lithuania, Elkes received his medical degree in 1903 in neurology and internal medicine. In 1912, he…
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 … the German occupation of Lithuania, assumed the leadership of the Jewish community in the Kovno (Kaunas) ghetto. Born in Kalvarija, Lithuania, Elkes…
5. Castle-shaped Havdalah spice box (besamim) owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.5
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1850-approximately 1935
emigration: 1939-1949
… Eli travelled to Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. They pretended they were born in Warsaw, Poland, to secure a Soviet visa, as well as visas from Jan…
6. Silver rickshaw and driver figurine owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.7 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.7
Date:
manufacture: 1870-1948
acquired: 1941 November-1948 December 31
… Eli travelled to Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. They pretended they were born in Warsaw, Poland, to secure a Soviet visa, as well as visas from Jan…
7. Silver bowl with a dragon owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.6
Date:
manufacture: 1900-1940
acquired: 1941 November-1948 December 31
… Eli travelled to Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. They pretended they were born in Warsaw, Poland, to secure a Soviet visa, as well as visas from Jan…
8. Julius and Bertha Meyerowitz papers
1993.128.16 Box 1 Folder 18 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1993.128.16
Date:
inclusive: 1866-1958
…Julius Meyerowitz (1866-1946) was born to Hirsch and Lina Meyerowitz in Kovno (now Kaunas, Lithuania), before moving to Königsberg, East Prussia (now…
9. Leonard Lauder collection
Document | Accession Number: 2001.146
Date:
1890-1994
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Lithuania--Kaunas--Personal narratives.…
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 …‐Jewish propaganda – Germany – 20th century. Jewish physicians – Germany – Berlin. Holocaust, Jewish (1939‐1945) – Lithuania – Kaunas – Personal…
10. 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
… possible. The memoirs were written by Malka Pugacka Smali between the 1950s and 1980s and describe life in Lithuania, the Kovno ghetto, and her immigration…
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 … possible. The memoirs were written by Malka Pugacka Smali between the 1950s and 1980s and describe life in Lithuania, the Kovno ghetto, and her immigration…