Group portrait of Jewish youth in the Kovno ghetto, who were involved in the underground.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 14718

Date: Circa 1943 - 1944
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 Eliezer Zilberis

Biography: Leah Port (later) Ingel and Samuel Ingel escaped from the ghetto in October 1943 with the first group of partisans to leave the ghetto. After wandering through the forests for ten days, they felt they were the only members of their group still alive. (Some other members of the group in fact made it back to the ghetto.) They met a Communist in the village of Simnas who brought them to the farm of his sister and brother-in-law, Elena and Petras Ivanauskai. Elena Ivanauskai agreed to hide Leah since she did not look Jewish, but she did not want to take in Samuel. Samuel returned to the forest, but eventually Elena gave in to Leah's pleas and agreed to hide Samuel in her barn. Leah and Samuel remained on the farm until their liberation in August 1944. The couple wed in December and moved to the United States.

[Source: Washington Post, Sunday November 26, 2006, p. A7]
Keyword: BADGES
BADGES (STAR OF DAVID)
CHILDREN/YOUTH
GHETTO/OCCUPATION
GROUP PORTRAITS
JEWS (LITHUANIAN)
KOVNO
RESISTERS/RESISTANCE
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Eliezer Zilberis
: Record last modified: 2006-11-30 00:00:00
This page: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1054855

Search Our Collections