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1. Orpo bei SSPF Litauen (Kaunas), Fond R-683/1, 2
Document | Accession Number: 2000.193 | RG Number: RG-26.031M
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1944
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Kaunas (Lithuania)--Ethnic relations.…
2. Oral history interview with Fania Brancovskaya
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2018.453.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0987
Date:
interview: 2018 October 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Fania Brancovskaya (née Feige Jocheles), born on May 22, 1922 in Kaunas, Lithuania, discusses her father Benjamin Jocheles, who was an electrical…
3. 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…
4. 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…
5. Enameled porcelain vase with a floral pattern owned by Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.4
Date:
creation: approximately 1925-approximately 1945
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…
6. Pair of Japanese geta owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.3_a 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.3 a-b
Date:
acquired: 1941 February-1941 October
… 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. Illustrated postcard with finger holes owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.8
Date:
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…
8. 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…
9. Formal, patterned kimono and shibori obi owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.2 a-b
Date:
acquired: 1941 February-1941 October
… 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…
10. 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…
11. Oral history interview with Tania Rozmaryn
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0418 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0067
Date:
interview: 1997 February 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish ghettos--Lithuania--Kaunas.…
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 … that he needs these people badly to build a road from Kovno to Vilna. And this is when he closed the cars, and he took us into Lithuania. We came to…
12. Oral history interview with Ada Ustjanauskas
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2008.276 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0527
Date:
interview: 2008 November 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… mixed Roman Catholic and Jewish family; moving with her family to Kaunas, Lithuania; her father’s experiences as a volunteer soldier during World War I…
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 ….030*0527 138 Q: Mm-hm, in [indecipherable] mm-hm. A: -- in -- in Lithuania, there were 30,000 of us were cut off, we returned to kow -- to Kaunas very late…
13. Oral history interview with Avraham Tory
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0119.13 | RG Number: RG-50.471.0013
Date:
interview: 1997 July 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Yermus, Celia Yewlow, and Berel Zisman. The interviewees discuss their experiences of living in the ghetto in Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania, during the…
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 … nevertheless they served and there were rows, 175 00:11:32,890 --> 00:11:40,440 long rows through the streets of Kovno on the way to the ghetto. 176 00:11:40…
14. Oral history interview with Zhenja Gurevich
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.286 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0286
Date:
interview: 1996 August 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… received treatment for typhoid fever; working in a field hospital; traveling back to Vilna via Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania, and eventual arriving in Svencionys…
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 …:06:26 Liquidation of the ghetto. Some were sent to Vilna; the majority to Kovno. The train stopped in Ponar. One of the Jews alerted the rest to flee…
15. 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
…Kaunas (Lithuania)--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.…
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 … Lithuanians took control of Vilna and three days of anti-Jewish rioting took place. On 7/15/40, the Soviet Army took over Lithuania, and by 8/3/40, Vilna, as…