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Portrait of Ida Karnovski sitting in her room in the Kovno ghetto.

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    Portrait of Ida Karnovski sitting in her room in the Kovno ghetto.
    Portrait of Ida Karnovski sitting in her room in the Kovno ghetto.

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    Caption
    Portrait of Ida Karnovski sitting in her room in the Kovno ghetto.
    Photographer
    David Chaim Ratner
    Date
    December 1943
    Locale
    Kaunas, Lithuania
    Variant Locale
    Kauen
    Kovno
    Kowno
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Pola Musel

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    Photo Source
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Provenance: Pola Musel
    Source Record ID: Collections: 1999.213

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    Biography
    Ida Karnovski was born in December 1926. The youngest of three sisters, she attended the Shalom Aleichem Yiddish school. During the war she lived in the ghetto with her sister Pola (Karnovski) Musel, her brother-in-law Moshe, mother, Meri Karnovski and aunt, Zoia Bershtanski in an apartment located at 10 Bajoru Street. She was killed at the age of eighteen, along with her mother and aunt, when the Germans set the ghetto on fire in July, 1944.
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