Survivors of the Kovno ghetto meet few days after the liberation. Hirsh Zvi Kadushin (George Kadish) on the left.
Overview
- Caption
- Survivors of the Kovno ghetto meet few days after the liberation. Hirsh Zvi Kadushin (George Kadish) on the left.
- Photographer
- George Kadish/Zvi Kadushin
- Date
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August 1944
- Locale
- Kaunas, Lithuania
- Variant Locale
- Kauen
Kovno
Kowno - Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of George Kadish/Zvi Kadushin
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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USHMM (Restricted)
Copyright: Exclusively with provenanceProvenance: George Kadish/Zvi KadushinSource Record ID: Collections: CR 1503.112
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Biography
- George Kadish (Hirsh Kadushin) taught science at a Hebrew high school in Kovno before the war. The first violent attacks against Kovno's Jews in June and July, 1941 moved Kadish, an avid amateur photographer, to document the community's ordeals. He secretly photographed over 1,000 images of ghetto life, sometimes even snapping pictures with a hidden camera through the buttonhole of his overcoat. In the x-ray department of the hospital where he was assigned to work, he bartered for film and developed his negatives. He then smuggled them out in a set of crutches. In late March, 1944 Kadish learned that the Gestapo, hearing of his photographic endeavor, was searching for him. Kadish fled the ghetto and went into hiding. He photographed the burning of the ghetto from the Aryan side. Following the liberation, he returned to the ghetto area. He photographed its remains, and dug up his prints and negatives that he had buried in milk cans beneath his house. Kadish moved to the United States and lived there until his death in August, 1997.
- Record last modified:
- 1998-05-26 00:00:00
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