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Group portrait of Lithuanian Jewish Zionist.

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    Group portrait of Lithuanian Jewish Zionist.
    Group portrait of Lithuanian Jewish Zionist. The original caption reads: "As a remembrance to our comrade Shmuel Gotz. From the second group of pioneers from Vilna, Kaunas 1920." Samuel Gotz is pictured in the second row, center with his arms folded.

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    Group portrait of Lithuanian Jewish Zionist.

    The original caption reads: "As a remembrance to our comrade Shmuel Gotz. From the second group of pioneers from Vilna, Kaunas 1920."

    Samuel Gotz is pictured in the second row, center with his arms folded.
    Date
    1920 November 09
    Locale
    Kaunas, Lithuania
    Variant Locale
    Kauen
    Kovno
    Kowno
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of L. Elly Gotz

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    Photo Source
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Provenance: L. Elly Gotz
    Second Provenance: Samuel Gotz
    Source Record ID: Collections: 2012.410.1

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    Biography
    Samuel Gotz. (1895 -1983). Born in Siauliai, Lithuania. He was a lifelong Zionist, was a leader in the early formation of modern Zionism and the Hachalutz movement in Petrograd (Petersburg) in Russia and in the Baltic states. He knew, and worked with many of the leaders of the Zionist movement including Chaim Weitzman, Josef Trumpeldor, Nachum Sokolov, Ussishkin and Vladimir Jabotinski. After 1935 he lived in Southern Rhodesia where he was very active in the Zionist organization.

    Elly Gotz lived in Kaunas, Lithuania with his parents, Sonja and Julius Gotz. When he was 13, the Nazis confined them to the Kovno Ghetto, along with 29,000 other Lithuanian Jews. After two years in the ghetto, Elly and his father were separated from his mother and sent to Dachau concentration camp. They remained there until the camp was liberated in April, 1945. After the war he and his parents moved for a while to Rhodesia where they reunited with Samuel.
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