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The Kovno Ghetto Partisans & Chaim Yelin


The Kovno Ghetto (Kaunas)

Story location: LithuaniaStory date: 1930~July 8, 1944

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The "Death Dealer" of Kovno Lietukis Garage

Mass Murder in Lithuania

Story date: 1941~April 1944

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The Gelpernus Diary

The Gelpernus Diary~Part II "Underground Struggle"

The Gelpernus Diary~ Resistance in the Kovno Ghetto

The Gelpernus Diary Resistance in the Kovno Ghetto

Story date: 1943

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The Gelpernus Diary~Part V "Death to the invaders"

The Gelpernus Diary~"Overcoming Fences"

The Gelpernus Diary~Part VII "Work Camps"

The Gelpernus Diary~Part VIII "In the open battle"

The Gelpernus Diary~Part VIII "In the open battle"

Executions in Fort Vll and Fort lX

The Public Hanging of Nahum Meck

Story date: Nov 18, 1942

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Tarbut School in 1932

Story date: 1932

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Partisans from the Kovno Ghetto

Hinda Cohen

Story date: March 27, 1944

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Group portrait of members of Irgun Brit Zion (ABZ) in the Kovno Ghetto

Kovno Ghetto Jewish Schools in Kovno

Story date: March 1944

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Ronia Rosenthal in 1936

Jews in a Street in the Kovno Ghetto, Lithuania

Story date: November 1943

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Nina Finkelstein Photos

Story date: 1990

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Chaim Yellin, a Yiddish writer and one of the heads of the Communist Underground in the Kovno Ghetto

Story date: January 1944

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Documents of the Holocaust

Story date: June 22, 1941~December 31, 1942

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Letter from the Kovno ghetto by Shulamith Rabinowitz

Story date: June 27, 1944

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Elena Kutorgiene~Survivor

The Story of Avraham Tory and his Kovno Ghetto Diary

Story date: June 25 1941

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Testimony of Meri Michelson

Story date: April 6, 1934

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Nessy Marks~Survivor

The Story of Albert Beder~Survivor

Story date: June 13, 1928

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Meir Liberman

Michael Pasternak - Jewish Partisan from Kovno

Gesia Glazar - Jewish Partisan

Moshe Sherman -Jewish Partisan from Kovno

Sima Jasunski Fajtlson -Jewish Partisan

Tzadok Bleiman Evyatar -Jewish Partisan from Kovno

Jewish partisans Outside the Ninth Fort after the Liberation

Jerachmiel Berman -Jewish Partisan from Kovno

Yehuda Eidelman -Jewish Partisan from Kovno

Kovno Partisans

Kovno Partisans~Page 2

Kovno Partisans~Page 3

Kovno Partisans~Page 4

Don't Forget Me- Basin Zina Ida

Beile Feinberg nee Peshkin

Story date: 1919~ 1945

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Khana Feiga Shneider

Mashka Sznejder

Karl Jäger

Story date: 20 September 1888 – 22 June 1959

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Judith Meisel~Survivor~ Born: 1929, Josvainiai (Josvani), Lithuania

Story date: 1929

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Israel Ipson~Survivor~ Born: 1911, Eydtkuhnen, Lithuania

Story date: 1911

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Henny Fletcher Aronsen~Survivor~ Born: 1924, Kovno, Lithuania

Story date: 1924

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Abraham Malnik Born: 1927, Kovno, Lithuania~Survivor

Hersh Gordon~Survivor~ Born: Kovno, Lithuania July 5, 1925

Story date: July 5, 1925

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Chaia Gurvitz Born: Lithuania ca. 1876~Survivor

Feiga Malnik Born: Lithuania 1905~Survivor

Story date: 1905

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David Levine Born:1929, Kovno, Lithuania~Survivor

Story date: 1929

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Ephraim Romm~Survivor

Evidence of Jewish Escapees from Kovno On the Burning of the Bodies

Story date: December 26, 1943

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A Lithuanian Woman Doctor on the Jews in the Kovno Ghetto

Story date: October 15, 1941

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The Kovno Ghetto Orchestra (1943-1944)

Story date: 1943-1944

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Esther Lurie, Artist of the Kovno Ghetto~Survivor

Story date: 1998.

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Shmuel Daitch Ben Menachem

David P. Boder Interviews Ephraim Gutman; September 12, 1946

Story date: September 12, 1946

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Matters of Life and Death

Luba Okun of Brookline; survived Kovno Ghetto

Story date: Sept. 12, 2006

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Kovno, Lithuania Remembered by Greta Rafsky

Einhorn Family

Story date: 1941~2006

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Ruth ELPERN

Story date: Aug 31, 1936~

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Michael and Robert Hofmekler

Story date: April 1945

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Kovno, Lithuania… 1941 – Survival

Story date: 1941

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ANTANAS ANDRAITIS

Story date: 1942~1997

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BRONISLAVA AND ADOMAS GECEVICIENE

REGINA KISLAUSKIENE

Story date: August 2002

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JEKATERINA MINKEVICIENE

HALINA MOSINSKIS

Story date: July 2004

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GIEDRUTE RAMANAUSKIENE

STASIA AND JONAS RUZGYS

KASTUTE AND VINCAS SAVICKAS

CHIUNE SUGIHARA

ONA URBONAS

THE VORONIECKY FAMILY

PASTOR ANDRÉ TROCMÉ~Survivor

Ilya Gerber: September 18, 1942

Harry Gordon (1925 – 2010)~Survivor

Story date: 1925 – 2010

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Helen Yermus ~Survivor

Oshry, Ephraim~Survivor

Story date: 1914–2003

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The Jewish child who became President of the Supreme Court – Judge Aharon Barak’s story

ELKES, ELCHANAN

Story date: 1879-1944

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Sima Yashonsky-Feitelson ~Survivor

A Young Holocaust Survivor: A Boy Named "Emke"

Story date: October 28, 1941

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Zvi Goldberg

Rhona Liptzin Speaks

Sam Wise~Survivor

Abe Gerson (originally Gershonowitz)~Survivor

Bernard Albert Birnbaum ~Survivor

Story date: 1936~2006

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Clara Eisenstein~Survivor

Dorothy Rosenberg Holzer~Survivor

Eva Dukesz Friedlander~Survivor

Story date: 1921

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Frieda Kiwetz Amir~Survivor

Ida Tavor~Survivor

Jaap Groen~Survivor

Jacob Szczupak~Survivor

Janina Prinz Kozma~Survivor

Lillian Skovronek Abramowitz~Survivor

Story date: 2004

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Margaret Jastrow Klug~Survivor

Maria Dziewinski~Survivor

Marty Storch~Survivor

Story date: 1924~2007

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Miksa (Mike) Mechlowitz~Survivor

Story date: 2005

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Rachel Lager Wise~Survivor

Rella Solski Sloman~Survivor

Ruth Grunkraut Lowenberg~Survivor

Story date: 1925

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Avraham Tory~Survivor~His Diary

Story date: June, 1941~ Feb. 24, 2002

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Shapira, ?ayim Na?man

Story date: 1895–1943

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Azriel Levi~Survivor