A group of Jewish friends go boating on the Nemunas River in the village of Vilkija near Kaunas.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 89243

Date: June 1936 - August 1937
Locale: Kaunas, Lithuania
Variant Locale: Kauen
Kovno
Kowno
Photo Designation: LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST -- Lithuania -- Family/Friends/Portraits
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Yehudit Katz Sperling

Biography: Dita Sperling (born Yehudit Katz, later Yehudit Zupovitz) is the daughter of Itzhak and Lola Katz. She was born in Kovno on April 15, 1922, where her father worked as an economist and her mother, as a dentist. Dita has one younger brother, Zvi. She married Yehuda Zupovitz during her last year of high school, five months before the start of the war. In the ghetto she and Yehuda lived with her mother, grandfather, brother and aunt. Dita smuggled food while on work details outside of the ghetto in order to keep the family fed. Yehuda kept much of his underground activity a secret from Dita, but he did teach her how to shoot a rifle. Shortly after Yehuda's arrest in March 1944, Dita was sent to the Sanciai labor camp. From there, she was deported to Stutthof in July. Dita survived along with her mother and brother. Her father was killed in the June 1941 pogroms in Kovno; and her grandmother, Basha, was killed during the March 1944 action that targeted the children and the elderly.
Keyword: BOATS
CHILDREN/YOUTH
JEWS (LITHUANIAN)
RECREATION
RIVERS/LAKES
YOUTH (13-20 YEARS)
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Yehudit Katz Sperling
: Record last modified: 2003-10-24 00:00:00
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