(JTA) — The story of Chiune Sugihara – the Japanese consul in Kovno, Lithuania, who disobeyed his government’s orders in 1940 and issued transit visas through Japan to thousands of Jews ...

Telegraph wires between Paris, Geneva, Memel, and Kovno buzzed, and the Allied representatives at Kovno remonstrated. The Lithuanian Government at Kovno,--though protesting its innocence,--was accused ...

“The Lithuanian state did not participate in the ... To Rosa Bloch, a 91-year-old survivor of the Kaunas, or Kovno, ghetto, the assertions are “so clearly false and outrageous that it could ...

They were held at the city’s Schießwerder restaurant and beer garden for four days in freezing temperatures before being ...

KOVNO GHETTO features moving interviews that bring to light atrocities that are stunning in their scope, and more so in that they are rarely mentioned. Discover how fellow townsmen murdered 6,000 ...

Born in the early 1890s in Kovno, Lithuania, Newman's propensity for activism started at an early age. Barred from attending the local public school because she came from a poor, Jewish family ...

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