Only their emigration from Lithuania and relocation to South Africa in 1928 spared Rumbak’s grandparents and aunts, born in Kovno (as Kaunas was known to Jews), the same fate.

WASHINGTON — As the Germans began the final destruction of the Jewish ghetto in Kovno, Lithuania, during 1944, 11-year-old Helen Yermus helplessly watched SS soldiers lead her 7-year-old brother ...

One road to Auschwitz ran through a small garage in Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania. In June, 1941, local nationalists surrounded and murdered about 50 Jewish men and left their bodies out in the ...

A Night of Reckoning in Kovno, Lithuania, 1917 The courage of a rabbi before Rosh Hashana brought about unity in spirit not only in suffering. Larry Domnitch Sep 27, 2011, 12:20 PM (GMT+3) ...

Telegraph wires between Paris, Geneva, Memel, and Kovno buzzed, and the Allied representatives at Kovno remonstrated. The Lithuanian Government at Kovno,--though protesting its innocence,--was accused ...

Born in 1928 in Kovno, Lithuania, then the country's capital, Beder was one of six children. His family was poor and lived in a small flat.

When news of Pilsudski’s charges reached Kovno, harassed Premier Valdemaras promptly denied that Lithuanian troops had been mobilized against Poland, then ordered his bags packed, and set out ...

Rosian Zerner was born in Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania. When Germany invaded in 1941, Rosian and her family were confined to the Kovno Ghetto. When she was six, her parents helped her escape through ...

The Lithuanian flyers Stephan Darius and Stanley Girenas, ... accepted the theory that their fuel supply had run out while they were trying to complete their flight from New York to Kovno, Lithuania.