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1. Bernard Stern papers
Document | Accession Number: 1995.27
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1947
…Jews--Lithuania.…
2. Henia Lewin photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2006.144
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1946
…Jews--Lithuania--Kaunas.…
3. Morris Sklarsky papers
Document | Accession Number: 2021.123.1
Date:
creation: 1945
…Jews--Lithuania--Kaunas.…
4. 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
… Lithuanian rabbis ( file 49-166); statistics about Jewish agricultural workers; unemployed Jews; Jewish primary schools; birth, death, marriage, and divorce…
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 …; card files of Lithuanian rabbis ( file 49‐166); statistics about Jewish agricultural workers; unemployed Jews; Jewish primary schools; birth, death…
5. 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
… refused. Elkes was deported to Dachau in July 1944. There, he continued to offer medical care to fellow Jews until he succumbed to starvation brought on…
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 … to fellow Jews until he succumbed to starvation brought on by a hunger strike. He died on October 17, 1944 at the age of 65. Due to his stature, he was…
6. By the Ghetto Gate
Recorded Sound | RG Number: RG-91.0090
Date:
Composed: 1941
Alternate Title:
Baym geto toyerl
…Jews--Lithuania--Kaunas.…
7. Oral history interview with Rita Frank
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.12.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0743
Date:
interview: 2014 February 20
interview: 2014 May 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Among the Nations because of her efforts to save Jews during the Holocaust; an unsuccessful attempt by the Gestapo to get information from her about her…
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 … before then, because there were trucks-- [NON-ENGLISH] trucks. Yeah, that's right. And it was then that I became aware of things happening with the Jews…
8. Elkhanan Elkes letter
Document | Accession Number: 1999.86
Date:
creation: 1943 October 18-1943 November 11
… refused. Elkes was deported to Dachau in July 1944. There, he continued to offer medical care to fellow Jews until he succumbed to starvation brought on…
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 … labor will live; the rest, probably, are sentenced to death. We here are the sorry remnants of many: out of the 35,000 Jews who used to live in Kovno…
9. Oral history interview with Wolf Yudelevicz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.100 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0100
Date:
interview: 2010 May 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Persecutions--Poland.…
10. Oral history interview with Pnina Tory
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0235
Date:
interview: 1991 September 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Lithuania--Kaunas.…
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 … and the fort seven the ninth, I tell these numbers because there were many Jews killed. And they were taken there, and we were by chance let...let out…
11. 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
… other Kaunas Jews under the wooden floor planks in his home; being separated from her family in 1941 and taken to the Stutthof concentration camp in…
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 … many Jews got killed. In fact later on I heard from the grown-ups accidentally there was there was a head from the child and a breast from the mother…
12. Oral history interview with Masha Loen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0305 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0053
Date:
interview: 1999 July 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Lithuania--Kaunas.…
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 … soldiers, the Russian soldiers shouldn’t give us out that we are Jews on top of it.” So this is my first lesson I learned, that I wasn’t the only one that…
13. Oral history interview with Irena Veisaite
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.738 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0505
Date:
interview: 2004 September 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Lithuania--Kaunas.…
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 … cosmopolitan family. A: Yeah. Q: You didn’t f -- did you feel a Jew, or did you feel a citizen of the world? A: No, I felt that I am -- I am a Lithuanian Jew…
14. Oral history interview with Henny Aronson
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2021.56.1 | RG Number: RG-90.184.0001
Date:
interview: approximately 2013
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Lithuania--Kaunas.…
15. Oral history interview with Jonas Baltramonaitis
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0221.250 | RG Number: RG-50.473.0250
Date:
interview: 2010 March 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jonas Baltramonaitis, born in 1931 in Kaunas, Lithuania, describes the torture of Jews at Lietukis Garage by local Nazi collaborators and German…
16. Oral history interview with Joel Elkes and Avraham Tory
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0315
Date:
interview: 1991 September 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Lithuania--Kaunas.…
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 …: He did? T: About this service in the army, and they called him. They didn't call him. They just... E: Talked about Judaism. T: And the Jews should go…
17. Julius and Bertha Meyerowitz papers
1993.128.16 Box 1 Folder 18 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1993.128.16
Date:
inclusive: 1866-1958
…Jews--Russia (Federation)--Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskai︠a︡ oblastʹ)…
18. Oral history interview with Sol Lurie
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0039 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0031
Date:
interview: 1998 November 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Sol Lurie discusses the change in relationships between Jews and Christians in Kaunas, Lithuania once the war started; when Poland was invaded by…
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 …Sol Lurie discusses the change in relationships between Jews and Chrisitans in Kovno, Lithuania once the war started; Poland when it was invaded by…
19. Oral history interview with Dov Levin
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0298
Date:
interview: 1994 November 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Lithuania--Kaunas.…
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 … Orthodox people like my late grandfather, his name was David Levin. He was a patriarchic Jew, a very strong man, like in these times. Not like my father, my…
20. Oral history interview with Aba Gefen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.387 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0387
Date:
interview: 2011 October 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… during which there were many deportations to Siberia; the German invasion and subsequent roundups and killings of Jews; Lithuanian collaboration in the…
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 ….” He owned a fabric store, and Aba’s mother was a housewife. His father’s clients were non-Jews from surrounding little villages, and he was well-liked…