Joel Elkes collection

Identifier: irn95125
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn95125

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1999 by Dr. Joel Elkes, the son of Dr. Elkhanan Elkes.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of original and typescript copies of letters sent by Dr. Elkhanan Elkes, head of Kaunas [Kovno] ghetto, to his children in England. It also includes a drawing of Dr. Elkes on his deathbed in the Dachau concentration camp, uniform trousers worn by Dr. Elkes in Dachau, and a memorial book of the Schwabbe Gymnasium.

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Drawing of Elkhanan Elkes on his death bed in the Dachau concentration camp
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn13687
- English
- overall: Height: 12.380 inches (31.445 cm) | Width: 11.620 inches (29.515 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Concentration camp inmate uniform pants worn by an inmate in Dachau
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn13688
- English
- Updated 7 months ago
Concentration camp uniform trousers worn by Elkhanan Elkes (donor's father) in Dachau concentration camp.
Book
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn13689
- English
- overall: Height: 9.620 inches (24.435 cm) | Width: 6.880 inches (17.475 cm) | Depth: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Memorial book of the Schwabbe Gymnasium.
Elkhanan Elkes letter
- 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...

Joel Elkes collection

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Drawing of Elkhanan Elkes on his death bed in the Dachau concentration camp

Concentration camp inmate uniform pants worn by an inmate in Dachau

Book

Elkhanan Elkes letter