Group portrait of the members of a firemen's orchestra in Jurbarkas, Lithuania.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 63069

Date: 1933 February 09
Variant Locale: Jurborg
Jurburg
Yorburg
Yurburg
Photo Designation: LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST -- Lithuania -- Political/Cultural Life
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Moshe Magidowitz

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.
Keyword: FIRE FIGHTERS/BRIGADES
GROUP PORTRAITS
JEWS (LITHUANIAN)
MUSICIANS/INSTRUMENTS
ORCHESTRAS/BANDS
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Moshe Magidowitz
: Record last modified: 2013-04-08 00:00:00
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