Lithuania Trip Photos

May 9 - 17, 2001

by Nancy Lefkowitz

ROLL 9

Kibart Cemetery

Kovna

By the Banks of the Nieman

Partizans Camp in the Rudniniki Forest

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Headstones in the Kibart Cemetery

My dear husband

Pesakh son of Mordechai

Volfovitz

In life a Father to us

We shall cherish your memory in our hearts forever

Died at the age of 40 ? on 22nd of Menakhem-Av 670 (1910)

Our dear and beloved mother and sister

Rachel-Leah daughter of Avraham-Mordechai

Filipovsky

You were taken from us in your best years

and left us mourning

Born on the 5th of Sivan 633 (1873)

Died on the first of Tamuz 689 (1929)

Mordechai son of Chaim

Yoselevitz

Died 28.4.1900

 

Our dear sister(?)

Rivkah daughter of Yosef-Tsevi

Goldberg

Died 20th of Kislev 681 (1921)

Bromberg

Daughter of Yosef

Died Kislev 689 (1929)

Yakov son of Yosef

Yom-Tov

His soul went to heaven

On 11th of Shevath 692 (1932)

Back in Kovno

Headstones in the New Kovno Jewish Cemetery

Our Guide, Chaim Bargman's fathers grave

Rail tracks alongside the New Jewish Cemetery in Kovno

Knowing the role of the railroad in the deportation of Jews, the railroads had an eerie feeling about them

Rail tracks alongside the New Jewish Cemetery in Kovno

View of Kovno

Restaurant on the Nieman River - on our trip from Kovno back toward Vilna

Lottye Brodsky at the Restaurant on the Nieman River

Esther Bejar and Nancy Lefkowitz

View from the Restaurant on the Nieman River - it was stunning beautiful

Partizan Camp in the Rudniniki Forests south of Vilna

Joseph Rosin and Dov Levin were here towards the end of the war.

The Bunkers of the Partizans

This is where they lived and aslept and ate

We were being eaten alive by hordes of mosquitoes and could not imagine being here for any length of time. Dov and Joseph endured much here.

The entrance to the Partizan Camp

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