Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Memorial book of the Schwabbe Gymnasium.
- Title
- Heikhal She-Shaka
- Date
-
found:
approximately 1944 October
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Joel Elkes
Physical Details
- Language
- Hebrew
- Classification
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Books and Published Materials
- Category
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Books and pamphlets
- Object Type
-
Books (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Blue cover.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 9.620 inches (24.435 cm) | Width: 6.880 inches (17.475 cm) | Depth: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm)
- Materials
- overall : paper, ink, cloth, metal, adhesive
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1999 by Dr. Joel Elkes.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 17:51:03
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- http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn13689
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Also in Joel Elkes collection
The collection consists of original and typescript copies of letters sent by Dr. Elkhanan Elkes, head of Kaunas [Kovno] ghetto, to his children in England. It also includes a drawing of Dr. Elkes on his deathbed in the Dachau concentration camp, uniform trousers worn by Dr. Elkes in Dachau, and a memorial book of the Schwabbe Gymnasium.
Concentration camp inmate uniform pants worn by an inmate in Dachau
Object
Concentration camp uniform trousers worn by Elkhanan Elkes (donor's father) in Dachau concentration camp.
Elkhanan Elkes letter
Document
Last letter sent by Dr. Elkhanan Elkes, a physician in Kovno (Kaunas, Lithuania) who was appointed chairman of the Jewish Council in Kovno ghetto in August 1941 after it was occupied by Germany in June 1941. The letter, written between 19 October 1943 and 11 November 1943, was handwritten in Yiddish and smuggled out of the ghetto to be delivered to his children who were studying in England. In the letter, Elkhanan describes in detail atrocities committed upon the Jews of Kovno after the German occupation, including deportation to forced-labor camps in Latvia, the execution of doctors and patients in the hospital, and the massacre in Fort IX, 29 October 1941. He also discusses atrocities committed by fellow Lithuanians. Elkhanan concludes the letter with personal messages to each of his children. The collection also includes a typed transcription of the letter in Yiddish. An English transcription and translation provided by the donor is available as a supplementary document.
