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Zoia Bershtanski sits in front of an open book at a table in her room in the Kovno ghetto.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 88952
Zoia Bershtanski sits in front of an open book at a table in her room in the Kovno ghetto. Zoia Bershtanski lived with her married sister, Meri Karnovski, in the ghetto. Both died in a bunker when the Germans set the ghetto on fire in July 1944. The photographer, David Ratner, was a friend and a member of the Communist underground.

Zoia Bershtanski sits in front of an open book at a table in her room in the Kovno ghetto.

Zoia Bershtanski lived with her married sister, Meri Karnovski, in the ghetto. Both died in a bunker when the Germans set the ghetto on fire in July 1944. The photographer, David Ratner, was a friend and a member of the Communist underground.

Photographer
David Chaim Ratner
Date
December 1943
Locale
Kaunas, Lithuania
Variant Locale
Kauen
Kovno
Kowno
Photo Designation
GHETTOS (MAJOR) -- KOVNO (Lithuania) -- Daily Life -- Families/Portraits/Homes
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Pola Musel

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Rights and Restrictions

Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Pola Musel
Source Record ID: Collections: 1999.213
Published Source
Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Little, Brown and Company - p.120
 
Record last modified: 2003-03-24 00:00:00
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