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Recent blog posts
- Aharon Pick’s Memoir
- Documenting the Holocaust
- Tracing the Pick Family
- Aharon Pick, Holocaust Witness
- Searching for Tsemach Pick
- Recalling those who survived the Keidan massacre
- ‘Good Morning, Lithuania’
- The Printed Version
- Another Day to Remember
- A Comment on Hirsh Bloshtein
- Yudel Ronder
- Coming Together for Passover
- A Century in Photographs
- The Problematic Hirsh Bloshtein
- Locating Lost Tribes
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Category Archives: History
Aharon Pick’s Memoir
We all have hopes and expectations for the new year. Mine are topped by the coming publication of a project I’ve been working on for three years: The translation of Aharon Pick’s Holocaust memoir, written from 1942-44 in the ghetto of Šiauliai. Continue reading
Posted in History, Holocaust, Literature, Memoir, Personalities
Tagged AharonPick, ghetto, Holocaust, Šiauliai, translation
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The Life and Times of Solly Chesler
By Jennifer Chesler Rubin, Ramat Efal, Israel (Adapted from an essay by Muriel Chesler on the occasion of Solly Chesler’s 75th birthday.) This is the story of my father, the late Solly (Sholem) Chesler, a self-made man, who arrived in … Continue reading
Posted in History, Israel, Memoir, South Africa
Tagged History, Israel, South Africa
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Documenting the Holocaust
To our Keidaner friends, We were recently contacted by Israeli filmmaker Boris Maftsir, best known for his documentaries about the Holocaust. Maftsir’s film project called “Searching for the Unknown Holocaust” includes documentaries on the experience in Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, … Continue reading
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Jewish economic life in Kėdainiai and vicinity before WWII
By Aryeh Leonard Shcherbakov and Moshe Girshovich The purpose of this study In 2011, the director of the Kėdainiai Regional Museum, Rimantas Žirgulis, compiled a list of Jewish enterprises active in Kėdainiai in the interwar period (Source #1). Here we … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, History, Interwar
Tagged Business, Directories, Economy, History, Interwar
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Searching for Tsemach Pick
Last month I received the following email: From: Ilya Shneyveys Subject: Dr Aharon-Leyb Pick Dear Andrew, Congratulations on this fascinating project! I just came across this blog today and am finding a lot of interesting information here.
Posted in History, Music, Soviet Union
Tagged AharonPick, BCassel, Holocaust, medicine, Soviet Union, World War II
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Recalling those who survived the Keidan massacre
By Aryeh Leonard Shcherbakov Preface When talking of the Jews of Keidan, the first who naturally come to mind are those who were murdered: our grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins lying in the mass grave on the outskirts of town. … Continue reading
Posted in History, Holocaust, Soviet Union, Yizkor Book
Tagged Israel, memorial books, Survivors
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Recalling those who survived: Lists
The first list below contains the names of Keidaners known to have survived the Holocaust, along with short biographic summaries where those could be obtained. The second list contains the names of young men who escaped the mass slaughter in … Continue reading
Posted in History, Holocaust, Images, Soviet Union
Tagged Israel, Soviet Union, Survivors
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Preface
Preface to the 1930 “zaml bukh” of the Keidaner Assn. of New York From the issuers When one generation passes, a multitude of memories from several preceding generations are lost as well, if they are not written down for those … Continue reading
Posted in History, Landsmanshaft, USA
Tagged 1930 Zaml Bukh, History, Keidaner Association, landsmanshaft, preface, USA
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The History of Keidan
By B. Cassel Originally published in 1930 by the Keidaner Association of New York. Original footnotes appear in roman type; translators’ and editors’ notes in italic. –––––––––––––– Foreword Framed within this brief account of Lithuania’s general history the reader will … Continue reading
Posted in History, Literature, Pre-WWI
Tagged 1930 Zaml Bukh, BCassel, History, Keidaner Association
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‘Good Morning, Lithuania’
Each summer, one of Lithuania’s most popular TV shows, called “Labas Rytas Lietuva” [“Good Morning Lithuania”] highlights different towns across that country. This year its focus was on Kėdainiai, and on July 4, the show aired a walking tour through … Continue reading
Posted in Contemporary Kedainiai, History
Tagged History, Kedainiai Regional Museum, Kedainiai today, TV
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