Group portrait of the leaders of the Anti-Fascist partisan group in the Kovno ghetto.
Overview
- Caption
- Group portrait of the leaders of the Anti-Fascist partisan group in the Kovno ghetto.
From left to right are Pesach Shachter, Moshe Sherman, Chaim Yellin, Masha Lan and Dima Gelperin. - Date
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Circa 1941 - 1943
- Locale
- Kaunas, Lithuania
- Variant Locale
- Kauen
Kovno
Kowno - Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Moshe Magidowitz
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Moshe Magidowitz
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Administrative Notes
- Biography
- Moshe Magidowitz is son of Rivka and Jakow Magidowitz. He was born in 1922 in Jurbarkas (Jurborg) Lithuania and had two brothers, Reuven and Yosef (Yossel) His parents were cousins. Moshe came to Kovno to study at an ORT vocational school and stayed with his aunt and uncle in Aleksotas. In June 1941 Germany launched a surprise attack on Lithuania, and that August Moshe was confined in the Kovno ghetto. His brother Reuven also successfully escaped.He remained there for two years before escaping to the woods with the partisans in December 1943. After liberation he returned to Kovno, but when he couldn't find any surviving relatives he moved to Vilna. His parents and Yossel all perished in the Holocaust. Moshe later moved to Koenigsberg (Kaliningrad) in East Prussia to serve as an army translator. In 1973 he and his wife Breina, also a survivor from Jurborg, moved to Israel.
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- 2013-04-08 00:00:00
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