<p>A prewar street scene in Vyzuonos (Wizuny). Lithuania, before September 1939. [Please contact Beth Hatefutsoth for copies of this photograph.]</p>
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A child in the Kovno ghetto hospital. Lithuania, between 1941 and 1944.
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Kovno ghetto hospital
A group of children in the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania. This photograph was taken by George Kadish between 1941 and 1943.
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A group of children in the Kovno ghetto
An American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) clothing supply center for refugees. Vilna, Lithuania, 1940.
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A JDC clothing supply center for refugees
Abraham came from a wealthy family that was ordered into the Kovno ghetto after the Germans occupied Lithuania in 1941. Abraham's mother urged his father to flee, but he returned for them. Begging for mercy, he was able to save them from a massacre in the Ninth Fort, one of several forts around Kovno. Abraham and his father survived internment in five camps before they were finally liberated in the Theresienstadt ghetto. Abe's mother perished at the Stutthof camp.
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Abraham Malnik describes massacre in Kovno's Ninth Fort, near the Kovno ghetto
Crowd views the aftermath of a massacre at Lietukis Garage, where pro-German Lithuanian nationalists killed more than 50 Jewish men. The victims were beaten, hosed, and then murdered with iron bars. Kovno, Lithuania, June 27, 1941.
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Aftermath of a massacre at Lietukis Garage in Kovno
Alexander Bernstein
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Alexander Bernstein
Secretary of the Kovno ghetto Jewish council Avraham Tory stands with Zvi Brik (left), workshop administrator, in the cemetery of the Kovno ghetto. Kovno, Lithuania, 1943.
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Avraham Tory stands with Zvi Brik (left)
This tan backpack was used by Ruth Berkowitz to carry her belongings as she fled from Warsaw via Lithuania and the Soviet Union to Japan. Most of her possessions were confiscated by both the Nazis and the Soviets during her journey. [From the USHMM special exhibition Flight and Rescue.]
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Backpack belonging to Ruth Berkowitz
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Baltic Countries, 1933
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Baltic Countries 1933, Kovno indicated
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Baltic Countries 1933, Siauliai indicated
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Baltic Countries, 1945
Channah Mazansky-Zaidel
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Channah Mazansky-Zaidel
Chiune Sugihara, Japanese consul general in Kovno, Lithuania, who in July-August 1940 issued more than 2,000 transit visas for Jewish refugees. Helsinki, Finland, 1937–38.
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Chiune Sugihara
A Lithuanian safe conduct pass bearing a stamp for transit through Japan (from Chiune Sugihara), two Soviet transit visas, a Lithuanian stamp, a U.S. non-immigrant visa, and a U.S. entry stamp from Seattle, Washington. [From the USHMM special exhibition Flight and Rescue.]
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Chiune Sugihara
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