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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: Soviet Union
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: Images
By Aryeh (Leonard) Shcherbakov Collected here are images of Keidaners who survived the Holocaust, made in the following decades. Not many such images exist, particularly those clear enough to allow easy identification. The photographs were taken mainly between 1957 and … Continue reading
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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A Comment on Hirsh Bloshtein
After reading my post about Hirsh Bloshtein, and the memoir “A Return to My Birthplace, Keidan,” posted here, Aryeh Shcherbakov submitted the following commentary, which I have edited. Shcherbakov, of Tel Aviv, was born and raised in Vilnius, Lithuania. The … Continue reading
Posted in History, Memoir, Personalities, Soviet Union
Tagged Bloshtein, Soviet Union, Stalin, USSR
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Yudel Ronder’s Story
Yehuda “Yudel” Ronder (1923-2016) was among the small number of Keidaner Jews who remained in Lithuania after the Holocaust. His story is both singular – a heroic tale of survival and persistence – and representative of the lives and experiences … Continue reading
Posted in Holocaust, Memoir, Personalities, Soviet Union
Tagged Lithuania, Oral history, Ronder, Soviet Union, USSR, World War II, Zionism
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The Problematic Hirsh Bloshtein
Among the pages I’ve added to the Keidan archives this week is this 1958 article from the Yiddish newspaper Morgen Freiheit by the Keidan-born poet and novelist Hirsh Bloshtein. Morgen Freiheit was a publication “affilitated with the Communist Party USA” … Continue reading
Posted in Personalities, Soviet Union
Tagged Bloshtein, Literary, Newspapers, Soviet Union, USSR
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Hirshel Bloshtein, Yiddish Poet
By Monty Starr (Birmingham, UK) Hirshel Bloshtein 1895-1978 My mother’s uncle was the well-published Yiddish author Hirshel Bloshtein. Hirshel lived in Czernowitz from 1932 until his death in 1978. Hirshel was born in Kėdainiai, Lithuania to Dovid Bloshtein, a poor … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Personalities, Soviet Union, Yizkor Book
Tagged Bloshtein, Family history, Literary, Poetry, Soviet Union, 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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My Youth in Keidan
By Hirsh Bloshtein From the 1977 Keidan Yizkor Book. My youth in Keidan, come back to me, I just want to hear your voice once more It’s not yet time to say the final “stop” and cut the string for … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Memoir, Soviet Union
Tagged Bloshtein, emigrants, Literary, Memoir, Poetry, Soviet Union, USSR
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Among the Ruins
By Chaim Ronder The text of a letter sent to the Keidaner Society of Johannesburg by Chaim Ronder, a partisan during the German occupation. POGEGEN (Pagėgiai, Lithuania) 7 November, 1946 Warm brotherly greetings to you, Jews of Johannesburg – born … Continue reading
Posted in Holocaust, Memoir, Personalities, Yizkor Book
Tagged ghetto, landsmanshaft, postwar, Red Army, Ronder, South Africa, Soviet Union
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