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

Photograph | Photograph Number: 89019
Portrait of Ida Karnovski sitting in her room in the Kovno ghetto.

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 Designation
GHETTOS (MAJOR) -- KOVNO (Lithuania) -- Daily Life -- Families/Portraits/Homes
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Pola Musel

About This Photograph

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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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Pola Musel
Source Record ID: Collections: 1999.213
 
Record last modified: 2003-10-22 00:00:00
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