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"Like Walking On Blood:" A Roots Trip to Lithuania
EX290_2425 Ghita Wolpowitz, a Litvak (Lithuanian Jew) who grew up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), talks about visiting Lithuania in 2008 to visit her mother's hometown and other sites from her family's...
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Sneaking Across Ever-Changing Borders in Lithuania/Poland/Czarist Russia
EX331_2470 Fira Bramson - former bibliographer of the Judaica collection of the Lithuanian National Archives - tells how her parents found themselves in Vilna when the city came under Polish control,...
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Escaping Kovne (Kovno or Kaunus, Lithuania) During World War Two
EX331_2471 Fira Bramson - former bibliographer of the Judaica collection of the Lithuanian National Archives - describes how the war reached Kovno just as she was finishing school, how she escaped,...
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A Japanese Diplomat Saved My Family During WWII
EX484_3481 Victor Gilinsky, son of Medem Sanitorium co-founder Shloyme Gilinski, retells the story of how his family hid out in Lithuania after they fled Poland before getting a travel visa with the...
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My Family's Expulsion from and Return to Lithuania
EX454_2333 Naomi Bloch, Yiddish librarian and translator, discusses her mother's family's expulsion from Lithuania during the First World War.More from this narrator: Naomi Bloch
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Prewar Jewish Life in Kovno, Lithuania
EX453_2062 Diane Cypkin, professor at Pace University and performer, describes prewar Jewish life in Kovno, Lithuania, including Yiddish theatre as well as native anti-Semitism.More from this...
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Surviving a Nazi Massacre: the "Great Aktion" of October 1941 in Kovne
EX453_2065 Diane Cypkin, professor at Pace University and performer, describes how her family survived the Great Aktion of October, 1941 when the Germans massacred thousands of Kovne (Kovno) Jews.More...
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