KOVNE CEMETERY LIST [transliterated] / Co-ordinator, Sylvia Nusinov ; [originally compiled by Yitzhak bar Moshe Devortsky]. (ID: 31964)
Authorship or Source:
- Nusinov, Sylvia.
- Devortsky, Yitzhak bar Moshe.
Year:
1998
Title or Main Description:
KOVNE CEMETERY LIST [transliterated] / Co-ordinator, Sylvia Nusinov ; [originally compiled by Yitzhak bar Moshe Devortsky].
Place Published or Holding Institution:
[Ghetto Fighters House, American Jewish Archives]
Description:
- [117] p.
- Number of Names or Other Entries-- Approx. 900
Type of Work:
Spiral-bound photocopy and also Internet resource.
Alternate or Series Title:
Lists of Jewish dead buried in the Kovno cemetery for the years 1941-1943.
Museum or Other Institution Holdings:
Reference Copy available at USHMM Archives Reference Desk.
Provenance:
- "Translation of cover page (1) of the Kovno Cemetery List: It was produced by the 'Hevrah Kadisha' the burial society of Viliampole (Viliampoliai, Slabodke, Slobodka). It is a document held in the archives of the Beit Lochamai HaGetaot, the Ghetto fighters Museum in Israel. The list is of those who died between 18 August 1941 and 31 December 1943. The document was produced by Yitzhak bar Moshe Devortsky. The categories are (from right to left): Family Name, First Name, Father's First Name, Address, Age, Hebrew Date of Death, Secular Date of Death, Location of Burial and Row# [...] List was obtained through the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the AMERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES, Cincinnati, Ohio."--P. [3].
- "Lists of Jewish dead buried in the Kovno cemetery for the years 1941-1943. Manuscript. Yiddish. 50 pages. Received from Mr. Zvi Shner, Asherat, Israel, Mr 22, 1982. Xerox copy. Vital Statistics File."--P. [2], [reproduction of American Jewish Archives catalog card?]
Keywords:
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --Lithuania --Kaunas --Registers of dead.
- Jewish ghettos --Lithuania --Kaunas --Registers of dead.
- Jews --Lithuania --Kaunas --Registers of dead.
- [Additional Geographic Keywords: Baltic States, Kauen, Kovno, Kowno, Kovnah]
Abstract:
- Lists of Jewish dead buried in the Kovno cemetery for the years 1941-1943.
- "Translation of cover page (1) of the Kovno Cemetery List: It was produced by the 'Hevrah Kadisha' the burial society of Viliampole (Viliampoliai, Slabodke, Slobodka). It is a document held in the archives of the Beit Lochamai HaGetaot, the Ghetto fighters Museum in Israel. The list is of those who died between 18 August 1941 and 31 December 1943. The document was produced by Yitzhak bar Moshe Devortsky. The categories are (from right to left): Family Name, First Name, Father's First Name, Address, Age, Hebrew Date of Death, Secular Date of Death, Location of Burial and Row# "--P. [3].
Language and Other Notes:
- Original text in handwritten Hebrew and Yiddish, with interspersed corresponding handwritten and typewritten English transliterations throughout and an alphabetically arranged hand-paginated 29 page "computer report" at the end (p. [89-118]) which includes entries for Page Number [of original manuscript], Surname, Given Name, Father's Name, Address, Birth Date/Age, Date of Death (Hebrew, Civil), Row, Grave.
- "Notes on the Transliteration of the Kovno Cemetery List" / by Robert Weiss, p. [87-88].
- A database of this list is available at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/kovnocem.htm. Database is searchable by Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex of surname (default), precise spelling of surname and "all fields" global text search.
Resource Center Cataloging Notes:
- Registry promised photocopy by USHMM Reference Archivist, A. Kornblum, October 1998.
- No Registry Accession or Document File yet prepared. Awaiting promised photocopy. -wcc