Elkes Elhanan

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn96873
• English
• box oversize boxes 1 2
• Updated 7 months ago

Consists of pre-war and post-war family photographs, correspondence, and documents related to Dr. Elkhanan Elkes, his wife Miriam, and children Joel and Sarah. The collection includes Sarah Elkes' handwritten diary, in German, from 1935-1937. Sarah’s entries describe her schooling, school friends, family, summers, and Hebrew studies. The collection also contains correspondence between the members of the family, with Avraham and Pnina Golub (later Tory), pre-war power of attorney document, a letter regarding the health of one of Dr. Elke’s patients, and photographs and a letter regarding the...

1. Joel Elkes collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn543449
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

Last letter sent by Dr. Elkhanan Elkes, a physician in Kovno (Kaunas, Lithuania) who was appointed chairman of the Jewish Council in Kovno ghetto in August 1941 after it was occupied by Germany in June 1941. The letter, written between 19 October 1943 and 11 November 1943, was handwritten in Yiddish and smuggled out of the ghetto to be delivered to his children who were studying in England. In the letter, Elkhanan describes in detail atrocities committed upon the Jews of Kovno after the German occupation, including deportation to forced-labor camps in Latvia, the execution of doctors and pa...