kov-p-#3:
kov-p-#4:
Her poems are known for their melancholy subjects with positive messages. Her themes include wounded love as well as a yearning for love and light. Her work is marked by an aesthetic intellectualism bordering on modernism. In addition to her poems, she wrote poems for children, a novel, a play and was responsible for translating a number of Russian and French masters into Hebrew.
kov-p-#15:Aron Popel returned
to Kovno after the war and found out that his
wife and children (see previous pictures) perished. In 1946 he married
Leah, standing next to her husband; Aharon, daughter; Riva (named
after Aron first wife) and Daniel (Kovno, 1964)
Zvi Hirsh Levitan was born in Kovno in 1840 and died in Jerusalem in 1915.
He established a Yeshiva in Slobodka (Or Hachaim Yeshiva in Slabodka
in 1863)
After four years in New York, he moved to Canton, Ohio, where he served as Rabbi from 1907-1910. In 1910, he moved to Atlanta, Georgia where he served as Rabbi of Shearith Israel Synagogue, where he remained until his death at the age of 99 in 1970. Rabbi Geffen was far more than merely the Rabbi of a synagogue in Atlanta, Deeply concerned with religious, educational and practical matters and imbued with great learning, personal piety, human warmth and compassion, practical administrative ability and above all, a deep and sincere love of the Jewish People and the Land of israel, he became leader of the traditional Jewish community of Atlanta. He was acknowledged as the dean of the Orthodox rabbis of the southern United States and the spiritual leader of that vast area. Rabbi Geffen's influence was also spread through his family of 8 children and 17 grand- children whom he taught formally and informally, for whom he was an inspiration and a role-model. Biographical information was submitted by Dr. Joel Ziff (Grandson of Rabbi Geffen).
Pesha Fruma
('Fannie') Rasnick (1872-1949), born in Kovno, Russia. Photograph taken
in New York, New York. In 1898, Pesha married Barnett Fine (1871-1962).
born in Kovno, Russia. Emigrated to America in 1886. Photograph taken
in NY,NY. Barnett was the grandson of Barnett and Mina Feinstein.
AncientFaces
Family Photo
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born: Kaunas, Russia [now Lithuania]; 12 September 1898
died: New York, NY, US; 14 March 1969
East12th Street
for other paintings by Ben Shahn go to www.tigtail.org/.../ n-american-a3.html
from the album of Russell Byer
kov-p-#41:
Portrait of Rivke (r) and Meyer Leybele Zeltser: Meyerel and his mother were saved in Russia. Rivkele and her father were killed on the way 1930s
kov-p-#42:
Leah Popel with her daughter,
Riva and Rivas' son; Solomon (Kovno,
1992
kov-p-#43:
Aron Popel, Kovno 1980
(Aron, son of Ezra Popel and ? neeTomback was born in Kovno in 1901
he died in 1983)
kov-p-#44:
Dr. Lova Gerstein ( son of
Greshon and Miriam) was born in Vilna in
1891 and wife; Maracia ( daughter of Phillip Blumenthal) Gerstein.
Both perished in the holocaust. Lova died in 1944 in camp in Germany.
Maracia died in Stutthof. Daughter; Perela died in 1945 in Stutthof,
Danzig at the age of 16.
Picture given by Michael Good
www.searchformajorplagge.com
kov-p-#45:
Lova Gershtein, Vilna 1912 ; son of Gershon Gerstein and Mera Meres was born in 1893. He was a physician in Kovno.He perished in concentration camp 1945
kov-p-#46:
Lyova Klaczko, killed during
the battle of Stalingrad in the Soviet army
levraphael@attbi.com
kov-p-#47:
Shmuel Klaczko, murdered
in Ponary 1941.
http://www.levraphael.com
kov-p-#48:
My mother Lija Klaczko (Kliatschko
in the ghetto census of 1942), born May 22, 1917, St. Petersburg, died
New York City February 7, 1999
-Lev Raphael
kov-p-#52:
Dr. Nachum and Dr. Ada Yeta Levitan
kov-p-#54:
1930 the wedding of Pesah and Wihna ( Vera nee Kaplan) Popel in Kovno Credit; Mina Pilo from Tel-Aviv -her mother was the sister of the bride and Daniel Popel who found Mina in 2005. His father was the brother of the groom. Mina was born in 1925 in Palestine. She attended the wedding in Kovno with her mother. They arrived to late to be included in the picture. The Boy in a sailosuit on the right- Fetka Grinshpan (Greenshpan);brother-Moishe (Moses); young girl-?; the young woman-Tzila (Cila) Grinshpan (maiden name Kaplan); the man between two women-Jehoshua or Joshua Kaplan; women-?; the man-brother of the bride-name it is not known; brother of bride Yerahmiel (a name inexact);
Sitting :
groom-Pesah Popel and the bride-Vihna (Vera) Kaplan; to the right of
the groom; my daddy Aron (Aharon) Popel; his wife Rivka Popel (nee Tomback)
with son Ezra; to the left of the bride the man in glasses-her brother
Alter Kaplan (a name inexact)
kov-p-#56:
1937 Kovno; Pesah and Vihna
(Vera) Popel with daughter Raya
(Raykele) and oldest son Itzhak (?)
kov-p-#57:
1937 Kovno; Pesah and Vihna
(Vera) Popel with daughter Raya
(Raykele) and oldest son Itzhak (?) all but Pesach perished in Kovno.
kov-p-#58:
Musicians in the Kovno ghetto
kov-p-#62:
Dr. Ytzhak Levitan was born in Shavli in 1881. He studied Medicine in Berlin and settled in Kovno. He was sent with his wife to Siberia (by the Soviets) for Zionist activities. in 1947 he returned to Lithuania he was sent again to Siberia and died in the 1950s. His son, Dr Moshe Levitan, perished with his wife in Kovno in 1944.
kov-p-#64:
Shlomo Choronzshitski was born in Siauliai in 1877 to Yisrael, a textile salesman. After he graduated from the Russian high school in Shavle, he attended law school in St. Petersburg. A became a well known lawyer and involved in Jewish education and social and political movements ( Zionist). In 1921 he returned to Siauliai and together with his brother, ran the leather factory. In 1928 he moved to Kovno and worked as a lawyer as well as a member of the city council. He wrote a book about last names in Eretz Yisrael. He passed away in Kovno in 1938.
kov-p-#65:
Approximately 10,000 children and youth below the age of 20 moved into the Kovno ghetto in August, 1941. Within a few months almost half of them (4,400) had perished in the "Great Action" of October 28, 1941. After the Germans issued a decree in July 1942 making pregnancy illegal and punishable by death, few children were born in the ghetto. During the fall of 1941 the community organized schools for children, but on August 25, 1942 educational instruction was formally banned. Limited elementary education continued clandestinely in private homes, and German authorities permitted the continuation of vocational schools for teenagers. In these schools Hebrew and Jewish history were taught in addition to crafts. Most children, however, did not go to school. They worked either in labor brigades or at home caring for younger siblings and keeping house. Originally, only children 16 and above were conscripted for slave labor. However, during the last year of the ghetto, all able-bodied teenagers over the age of 12 were registered for work. Those too young for forced labor often sold their services in order to bring in extra food for their families. These illegal workers were called "malokhim" or angels. In November 1943 fear for the safety of the remaining children in the ghetto mounted after word was received of a special "Children's Action" that had taken place in the nearby ghetto of Shavli (Siauliai). For the first time parents actively sought hiding places for their children outside the ghetto. The Kovno ghetto "Children's Action" took place on March 27-28, 1944. During the two-day action German troops and Ukrainian auxiliaries went from house to house and rounded-up the ghetto's remaining children who were below the age of 12. The 1300 victims of the "Children's Action" were either shot at the Ninth Fort or deported to Auschwitz, where they were gassed.
Date: Feb 1944
Locale: Kaunas, Lithuania
Photographer: George Kadish/Zvi Kadushin
Credit: USHMM, courtesy of Shraga Wainer
kov-p-#66:
Left to right: Raya Gonen, her father Yerschmiel Siniuk, Henry Kacenelenbogen (now Kellen) and Mrs. Siniuk. The two men survived the Kovno ghetto by escaping and hiding with the Urbanas family.
Courtesy of Raya Gonen
kov-p-#67:
Ona Urbonas with the man she helped rescue during the holocaust, Yerschmiel Siniuk, Ona's brother Jouzas Urbonas and her husband Bronius.
kov-p-#69:
Zeev Morshzik, a holocaust survivor from Kovno
kov-p-#74:
Abelman Liba
Liba Abelman nee Frucht was born in Wilkomir in 1890 to Mordchel and Soulia. She was a nurse and married to Chaim. Prior to WWII she lived in Kovno, Lithuania. During the war she was in Kovno, Lithuania. Liba perished in the Shoah. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 20-Sep-1998 by her niece
kov-p-#75:
Name:
Eliezer Simcha Rabinowich
Birth:
1839 -- Kovno
Death:
1911 (Age: 71-72) -- Lomza
kov-p-#76:
Yeshayau Shrayer was born in 1903
Attended the Hebrew Gimnasia in Kovno came to Eretz Israel in 1923
for details; http://www.netanya-moreshet.org.il/show_item.asp?levelId=44133&itemId=7086&itemType=6000
kov-p-#78:
Shwartz/Katz Mina was born in Rakishok in 1925 and moved to Kovno in 1938.
She is a holocaust survivor. Ead about her at; http://www.yad.org.il/rehovot/show_item.asp?levelId=43093&itemId=103648&itemType=3001