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Abe Rich
Abe Rich (died November 25, 2008) was a wood craftsman and Holocaust survivor.
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Adrian von Renteln
Theodor Adrian von Renteln (September 15, 1897 – 1946 (disputed)) was an activist and politician in Nazi Germany.
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Aharon Barak
Aharon Barak (אהרן ברק, born Aharon Brick, 16 September 1936) is a Professor of Law at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya and a lecturer in law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Yale Law School, Central European University, Georgetown University Law Center, and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.
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Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award
The Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (AHMA) was founded by Austrian Service Abroad in 2006.
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Avraham Duber Kahana Shapiro
Rabbi Avraham Dov-Ber Kahana Shapiro (also spelled Shapira) (1870–1943) was the last Chief Rabbi of Lithuania and the author of the three-volume work entitled Devar Avraham.
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Avraham Grodzinski
Rabbi Avraham Grodzinski was a Haredi Rabbi born in 1883 in Warsaw, Poland and died in 1944 in Kovna, Lithuania.
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Avraham Melamed
Avraham Melamed (אברהם מלמד, born 7 October 1921, died 12 December 2005) was an Israeli politician and Holocaust survivor who served as a member of the Knesset for the National Religious Party between 1969 and 1984.
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Šiauliai Ghetto
The Šiauliai or Shavli Ghetto was a Jewish ghetto established in July 1941 by Nazi Germany in the city of Šiauliai (שאַװל, Shavl) in Nazi-occupied Lithuania during the Holocaust.
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Švenčionys Ghetto
Švenčionys or Svintsyan Ghetto was a Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Švenčionys (pre-war Second Polish Republic, post-war Lithuanian SSR).
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Beth Hamedrash Hagodol
Beth Hamedrash Hagodol New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (February 28, 1967), p.107, p.22or Beth Hamidrash Hagadol, Beth Hamedrash Hagadol, Beth Midrash Hagadol (בֵּית הַמִּדְרָש הַגָּדוֹל, "Great Study House") is an Orthodox Jewish congregation that for over 120 years was located in a historic building at 60–64 Norfolk Street between Grand and Broome Streets in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.
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Bruno Kittel
Bruno Kittel (born 1922 in Austria) was a Nazi official who oversaw the liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto in September 1943 and became known for his cynical cruelty.
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Central Committee of the Liberated Jews
The Central Committee of the Liberated Jews (ZK) was an organization which represented Jewish displaced persons in the American Zone of the post-World War II Germany, during 1945-1950.
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Chaim Yellin
Chaim Yellin (חיים ילין; Chaimas Jelinas; 1912–1944) was a Yiddish poet and leader of the resistance movement in the Kovno Ghetto during the German occupation of Lithuania.
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Elena Lukauskienė
Elena Lukauskienė (1 January 1909 – 17 March 1959), née Stankevičiūtė, married Raclauskienė, also Raclauskienė-Lukauskienė, was a Lithuanian chess master.
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Ephraim Oshry
Ephraim Oshry (1914–2003), was an Orthodox rabbi, posek, and author of The Annihilation of Lithuanian Jewry.
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Erich Ehrlinger
Erich Ehrlinger (14 October 1910 in Giengen an der Brenz, Kingdom of Württemberg – 31 July 2004 in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg) was a member of the Nazi Party (number: 541,195) and SS (number: 107,493).
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George Kadish
George Kadish, born Zvi (Hirsh) Kadushin (died September 1997), was a Lithuanian Jewish photographer who documented life in the Kovno Ghetto during the Holocaust, the period of the Nazi German genocide against Jews.
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German occupation of Lithuania during World War II
The occupation of Lithuania by Nazi Germany lasted from the German invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941 to the end of the Battle of Memel on January 28, 1945.
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Grossaktion Warsaw (1942)
The Grossaktion or Gross-Aktion Warsaw (Großaktion Warschau, Great Action) was a secretive Nazi German operation of the mass extermination of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto beginning 22 July 1942.
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Helmut Rauca
Helmut Rauca (3 November 1908 – 29 October 1983) was the Holocaust perpetrator instrumental in the murder of more than 10,000 Jews from the Kaunas Ghetto, Lithuania, during World War II.
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History of Lithuania
The history of Lithuania dates back to settlements founded many thousands of years ago, but the first written record of the name for the country dates back to 1009 AD.
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History of the Jews in Latvia
The History of the Jews in Latvia dates back to the first Jewish colony established in Piltene in 1571.
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Index of World War II articles (K)
# K-25.
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Irena Adamowicz
Irena Adamowicz (11 May 1910 – 12 August 1973), was a Polish-born scout leader and a Resistance worker during World War II.
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Isaac Schwartz
Isaac Iosifovich Schwartz (Исаак Иосифович Шварц; 13 May 1923 – 27 December 2009), also known as Isaak Shvarts, was a Soviet composer.
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Jay M. Ipson
Jay M. Ipson (born June 5, 1935 in Kovno as Jacob Ipp) is a Litvak-American Holocaust survivor and co-founder of the Virginia Holocaust Museum in Richmond, Virginia.
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Jäger Report
The so-called Jäger Report, also Jaeger Report (full title: Complete tabulation of executions carried out in the Einsatzkommando 3 zone up to December 1, 1941) was written on 1 December 1941 by Karl Jäger, commander of ''Einsatzkommando'' 3 (EK 3), a killing unit of ''Einsatzgruppe'' A which was attached to Army Group North during the Operation Barbarossa.
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Jewish Vocational School Masada in Darmstadt 1947-1948
The Jewish Vocational School Masada in Darmstadt was established and run by Samuel Milek Batalion between 1947 and 1948.
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Jonava
Jonava (Yiddish: יאנאווא, Janów, Janau) is the ninth largest city in Lithuania with a population of ca 30,000.
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Joseph Kagan, Baron Kagan
Joseph Kagan, Baron Kagan (6 June 1915 – 17 January 1995) was a Lithuanian-British industrialist and the founder of Kagan Textiles, of Elland, which made raincoats from the waterproof Gannex fabric he had invented.
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July 1944
The following events occurred in July 1944.
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Jurbarkas
Jurbarkas (Samogitian: Jorbarks, known also by several alternative names) is a city in Tauragė County, in Samogitia, Lithuania.
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Jurgis Savickis
Jurgis Savickis (4 May 1890 – 22 December 1952) was a Lithuanian short story writer and diplomat representing interwar Lithuania mostly in the Scandinavian countries.
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Kaunas Fortress
Kaunas Fortress (Kauno tvirtovė, Кοвенская крепость) is the remains of a fortress complex in Kaunas, Lithuania.
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Kaunas massacre of October 29, 1941
The Kaunas massacre of October 29, 1941 also known as the Great Action was the largest mass murder of Lithuanian Jews.
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Kaunas pogrom
The Kaunas pogrom was a massacre of Jewish people living in Kaunas, Lithuania that took place on June 25–29, 1941 – the first days of the Operation Barbarossa and of Nazi occupation of Lithuania.
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Leyb Gorfinkel
Leyb Gorfinkel (March 14, 1896 – September 7, 1976; also known as Leib Garfunkel and Levas Garfunkelis in Lithuanian) was an advocate, journalist, and politician.
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List of Nazi concentration camps
This article presents a partial list of the most prominent Nazi German concentration camps set up across Europe during the course of World War II and the ensuing Holocaust.
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List of Nazi-era ghettos
This article is a partial list of selected Jewish ghettos created by the Nazis for the purpose of isolating, exploiting and finally, eradicating Jewish population (and sometimes Gypsies) on territories they controlled.
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Lithuanian Activist Front
Lithuanian Activist Front or LAF was a short-lived resistance organization established in 1940 after Lithuania was occupied by the Soviet Union.
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Louis Israel Dublin
Louis Israel Dublin (November 1, 1882 – March 7, 1969) was a Jewish American statistician.
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Nadezhda Dukstulskaite
Nadezhda Dukstulskaite (5 March 1912 – 2 October 1978) was a pianist whose concerts and recordings promoted international awareness of Lithuanian composers, and who influenced several generations of Lithuanian pianists, singers and other musicians.
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Nancy Wright Beasley
Nancy Wright Beasley (born 2 September 1945) is a Virginia author who primarily writes about the Holocaust.
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Nazi concentration camp commandant
The commandant (KZ-Kommandant, Lagerkommandant) was the chief commanding position within the SS service of a Nazi concentration camp.
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Ninth Fort massacres of November 1941
The Ninth Fort massacres of November 1941 were two separate mass shootings of 4,934 German Jews in the Ninth Fort near Kaunas, Lithuania.
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October 29
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Petronėlė Lastienė
Petronėlė Lastienė née Sirutytė (9 September 1897 – 30 November 1981) was a Lithuanian teacher and university professor.
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Reichskommissariat Ostland
Nazi Germany established the Reichskommissariat Ostland (RKO) in 1941 as the civilian occupation regime in the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania), the northeastern part of Poland and the west part of the Belarusian SSR during World War II.
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Riga Ghetto
The Riga Ghetto was a small area in Maskavas Forštate, a neighborhood of Riga, Latvia, designated by the Nazis where Jews from Latvia, and later from Germany, were forced to live during World War II.
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Robin O'Neil
Robin O'Neil is a Holocaust researcher and author.
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Rollkommando Hamann
Rollkommando Hamann (skrajojantis būrys) was a small mobile unit that committed mass murders of Lithuanian Jews in the countryside in July–October 1941, with a death toll of at least 60.000 Jews.
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Sara Ginaite
Sara Ginaite-Rubinson (born 1924) is a Lithuanian-born Canadian academic.
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Seventh Fort
The Seventh Fort or VII Fort is a defensive fortification built in Žaliakalnis district of Kaunas, Lithuania, during implementation of the first phase of the construction of the Kaunas Fortress.
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Shlomo Shafir
Shlomo Shafir (1924-2013) was an Israeli journalist and historian.
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Si Frumkin
Si Frumkin (born Simas Frumkinas) (November 5, 1930 – May 15, 2009) was a Lithuanian-born Jew who survived imprisonment at the Dachau Nazi concentration camp, and emigrated to the United States, where he became a prominent textile manufacturer and activist involved in issues relating to Soviet Jewry.
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The Holocaust
The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, was a genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered approximately 6 million European Jews, around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe, between 1941 and 1945.
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The Holocaust in Lithuania
The Holocaust in German occupied Lithuania resulted in the near total destruction of Lithuanian (Litvaks) and Polish Jews, living in Generalbezirk Litauen of Reichskommissariat Ostland within the Nazi-controlled Lithuanian SSR.
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Timeline of deportations of French Jews to death camps
This is a timeline of deportations of French Jews to Nazi extermination camps in German-occupied Europe during World War II.
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Vaivara concentration camp
Vaivara concentration camp was the largest of the 22 concentration and labor camps established in Estonia by the Nazi regime during World War II.
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Vilijampolė
Vilijampolė (popularly known in Lithuania as Slabotkė) is an elderate in the city of Kaunas, Lithuania, located on the right bank of the Neris River and the Nemunas River, near their confluence.
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Violence against women
Violence against women (VAW), also known as gender-based violence and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) is, collectively, violent acts that are primarily or exclusively committed against women and girls.
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Virginia Holocaust Museum
The Virginia Holocaust Museum (VHM) is a public history museum, located in Richmond, Virginia.
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Wilhelm Göcke
Wilhelm Göcke (12 February 1898, Schwelm, German Empire – 20 October 1944, Fontana Liri, Italy) was an SS-Standartenführer, SS-Obersturmbannführer der Reserve der Waffen-SS and a commandant of Warsaw concentration camp and the Kovno Ghetto.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kovno_Ghetto
