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- 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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Tag Archives: Holocaust
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
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Tagged AharonPick, ghetto, Holocaust, Šiauliai, translation
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The Keidan Jewish Cemetery Project
By Ben-Tsiyon Klibansky July, 2021 The Initiative In 2016, I was invited to a seminar held in Vilna. At the end of the seminar, I took a train to Keidan, the hometown of my father and his mother, to visit … Continue reading
Posted in Cemeteries, Contemporary Kedainiai, Holocaust, World War I
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Aharon Pick, Holocaust Witness
Late in the winter of 1943, Dr. Aharon Pick helped put Jewish infants to death. Assisted by other doctors and nurses in the makeshift hospital of the Šiauliai ghetto, he euthanized them with heroin and morphine, in one instance resorting … Continue reading
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Tagged AharonPick, BCassel, Holocaust, Memoir
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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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Yudel Ronder
I first heard of him in 1994, from Laurence Salzmann, a Philadelphia photojournalist who was documenting Jewish survivors of the Holocaust in Lithuania. At the time all I knew about Keidan came from my grandfather’s articles, which predated World War … Continue reading
Posted in Holocaust, Personalities, Soviet Union
Tagged Holocaust, Interwar, Oral history, postwar, Red Army, Ronder, USSR
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A Return to My Birthplace, Keidan
This article, by the Soviet writer Hirsh Bloshtein (1895-1979), was published Oct 22, 1958, in Morgen Freiheit, a New York City-based Yiddish newspaper affiliated with the Communist Party USA. By H. Bloshtein A journey back to childhood and early youth … Continue reading
Posted in Holocaust, Memoir, Soviet Union
Tagged Bloshtein, Holocaust, Lithuania, massacre, postwar, Soviet Union, USSR
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From ‘The Annihilation of Lithuanian Jewry’
Keidan by Efraim Oshry The following is an entry from Oshry, Efraim, “The Annhilation of Lithuanian Jewry” (New York, 1995) Originally published in Yiddish as “Khurbn Lita”. New York, 1951. LITHUANIAN NAME: Kėdainiai RUSSIAN NAME: Keidany LOCATION: A district capital … Continue reading
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Tagged History, Holocaust, massacre, rabbis, Ronder, Synagogues
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Exodus, Interrupted
The story of Keidan’s Sroelov and Smilg families By Tamar Dothan (Jerusalem) My grandparents, Chaya Smilg and Chaim Ber Sroelov, were married before World War I. Chaim Ber was operating the family’s wholesale beer business, as his father had passed … Continue reading
Posted in History, Holocaust, Israel, Memoir, Soviet Union, Zionism
Tagged Economy, Family history, Holocaust, Interwar, Israel, Zionism
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From Darkness to Light
By Rivka Shlapobersky-Strichman (Haifa, Israel)[1] In 1996, representatives of the Spielberg fund, who initiated the archiving of Holocaust survivor’s stories, asked to interview me. I wondered what I could share about my childhood and to my amazement I could gather … Continue reading
In Pursuit of the Murderers
Excerpts of letters from Yehuda Ronder, Kaunas After surviving the war as a soldier in the Red Army’s 16th Lithuanian Division, Yudel Ronder returned home to Lithuania and spent the rest of his life there. Throughout the post-war years and … Continue reading
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Tagged Holocaust, Lithuania, massacre, postwar, Ronder
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