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1. Elkhanan Elkes letter
Document | Accession Number: 1999.86
Date:
creation: 1943 October 18-1943 November 11
… married Miriam Albin. After serving as a physician in the Russian army, he opened a private practice and eventually became one of Kovno's leading…
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 …Elkhanan Elkes to his children, 19 October 1943 Translation by Moshe Dor, with corrections by Dr. Joel Elkes, 1997 At Viliampoli Ghetto (Kovno…
2. Irena Veisaite photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 1994.107
Date:
creation: 1943-circa 1949
…. In August 1941, Irena, her grandparents and an aunt were imprisoned in the Kovno ghetto. With the help of family friends, the Strimaitis family, Irena…
3. Dita Sperling photographs
Document | Accession Number: 1995.98
…Contains 15 photogaph prints of several scenes in the Kovno Ghetto (Kaunas, Lithuania), showing (donor) and her friends, including Yehuda Zupovitsh…
4. 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…
5. Shlomo Shafir photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 1994.106
Date:
creation: 1943
… 1938 he moved with his father to Kovno, Lithuania (now Kaunas, Lithuania). They eventually moved into the Kovno ghetto where Shlomo began editing and…
6. Deutsche Baubataillon, Kaunas (Fond R-1547/1)
Document | Accession Number: 2000.204 | RG Number: RG-26.042M
Date:
creation: 1942
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Jewish ghettos--Lithuania--Kaunas--History--20th century.…
7. Ralph Jaffe papers
Document | Accession Number: 1994.104
Date:
creation: 1941
…Jewish ghettos--Lithuania--Kaunas.…
8. 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…
9. Polia Musel papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.213.1
…Jewish ghettos--Lithuania--Kaunas.…
10. 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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 … 8 (first item), solicited by Szmerke Kaczerginski, and done by the poet Hersh Osherowicz of Kovno, in Vilna. 12 pp., written by the translator in ink…
11. Chronology
Document | Accession Number: 1997.5
Date:
1945 April
…Jewish ghettos--Lithuania--Kaunas.…
12. Tarshish family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2007.480.1
…; and Kovno during the Holocaust and immediately after liberation. Photographs depict Itzchak Katzenelson (1886-1944) who opened a secular Hebrew school…
13. "Soldiers Without Weapons" excerpt
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0058 | RG Number: RG-20.016
Date:
1967
…Jewish ghettos--Lithuania--Kaunas.…
14. 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…
15. 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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16. Arbeitsamt Kaunas (Fond R-1474/1)
Document | Accession Number: 2000.211 | RG Number: RG-26.048M
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1944
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Jewish ghettos--Lithuania--Kaunas.…
17. Calel and Michael Kurzer collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.187.1
… [born in Utena, Lithuania in 1928] who were deported from the Kovno ghetto and to the Dachau concentration camp in Germany where they were interned and…
18. 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
… executed on September 8, 1941. Malka was confined to the Kovno ghetto in the Slobodka district, worked taking care of the two small children of a Jewish…
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 … detention camp in 1947 describing a scene she witnessed in the Kovno ghetto in 1942 in which a little girl’s grandmother suggested miracles were still…
19. Rodney A. Ross essays relating to the Gordon and Goldberg families
Document | Accession Number: 1988.0023 | RG Number: RG-10.107
… genealogy of the family of Raphael Goldberg (paternal grandfather of Rodney A. Ross); the Goldberg family in Slobodka, the "Jewish ghetto" near Kaunas…
20. 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…