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Five youths in the Kovno ghetto.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 14827
Five youths in the Kovno ghetto. The Yiddish inscription on the back reads: "To the memory of five friends: I. Shapiro, Sh. Katz, R. Schwartzbard, L. Doneshewsky, I. Trozki/ Viljampolie [Slobodka] ghetto." Pictured on the left is Itzhak Zeev Trozki.

Five youths in the Kovno ghetto.

The Yiddish inscription on the back reads: "To the memory of five friends: I. Shapiro, Sh. Katz, R. Schwartzbard, L. Doneshewsky, I. Trozki/ Viljampolie [Slobodka] ghetto." Pictured on the left is Itzhak Zeev Trozki.

Date
1943 October 28
Locale
Kaunas, Lithuania
Variant Locale
Kauen
Kovno
Kowno
Photo Designation
GHETTOS (MAJOR) -- KOVNO (Lithuania) -- Children/Youth/Zionist Groups
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Sara Trozki Koper

About This Photograph

Biography
Sara Trozki and her mother were the only members of their immediate family to survive the war. Her sister, Hana, was killed during the final liquidation of the Kovno ghetto in July 1944; her father and brother, Israel and Itzhak Zeev, died in Dachau following their deportation from Kovno.

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Artifact Photographer
Edward Owen

Rights and Restrictions

Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Sara Trozki Koper
Source Record ID: Collections: Exh. Loan: Koper, Sara Trozki
Published Source
Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Little, Brown and Company - p. 193
 
Record last modified: 2020-06-29 00:00:00
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