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 ...

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) ...

Life in Lithuania and the Holocaust Known by his Yiddish name of Hershel or Hersh within the family, Lewin was born in 1919 in Kovno, Lithuania, the eldest of six brothers.

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 ...

Surviving the Holocaust:The Kovno Ghetto DiaryBy Avraham ToryHarvard, 554 pages, $34.95In the end, survivors have but one tale to tell: How I endured. For each individual, it is the most important ...

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 ...

On Nov. 21, 1941, over 1,000 of Breslau’s residents were detained by members of the Gestapo, then stuffed inhumanly into trains for four days to be deported to Fort IX of the Kaunas Fortress in ...