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It was here in this suburban district known to the Jews as Slobodka that on German orders, the Kovno (as Kaunas was once called) Ghetto was sealed on August 15, 1941 with 29,000 impounded people. The area had been a Jewish village for four hundred years. Jewish history runs particularly deep in Lithuania. Before the war, some 200 communities ...
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Danzig Jewry lives on in the community archives, which the...
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Purim (Heb. פּוּרִים) is one of the most joyous and fun...
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There were six daily Jewish newspapers. Yiddish was the...
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Aug 13, 2021 · Kovno Before World War II. Between 1920 and 1939, Kovno (Kaunas), located in central Lithuania, was the country's capital and largest city. In 1939, it had a Jewish population of approximately 32,000. This was about one-fourth of the city's total population. Jews were concentrated in the city's commercial, artisan, and professional sectors.
On August 1, 1944, the ghetto was finally liberated by the Soviet Army (USHMM). Out of the vibrant community of almost 40,000 Jews that lived in Kovno before the war, only 2,000 survived (Yad Vashem). Soviet Officers uncover mass graves at the Ninth Fort, where tens of thousands of Jews were massacred, shortly after liberating the city.
Kaunas. KAUNAS (Pol. Kowno; Rus. Kovno; Ger. under Nazi occupation, Kauen), city in Lithuania situated at the confluence of the rivers Viliya and Neman. Formerly in Poland-Lithuania, it passed to Russia in 1795, was occupied by Germany in World War I (1915–18), and became capital of the independent Lithuanian Republic from 1920 to 1939.
Full oral history interview. Diane Cypkin, professor at Pace University and performer, describes prewar Jewish life in Kovno, Lithuania, including Yiddish theatre as well as native antisemitism. This is an excerpt from an oral history with Diane Cypkin. This excerpt is in English. Diane Cypkin was born in Münich, Germany in 1948.
Apr 7, 2015 · The Clandestine History of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police Translated and edited by Samuel Schalkowsky Indiana University Press, 416 pages, $35. When we think of Lithuanian Jewry, we tend to think ...
Aug 23, 2018 · This chapter reviews the book The Story of an Underground: The Resistance of the Jews in Kovno in the Second World War (2014), by Dov Levin and Zvie A. Brown, translated by Jessica Setbon. The Story of an Underground is about the Jews of Kovno (Kaunas) who founded an underground movement during the Holocaust. The armed underground developed a ...
