Kovno

Also known as: Kaunas (Lithuanian) Kovna, Kovne

Location: At the confluence of the Neiman (Nemunas) and Neris rivers, 100 km west of Vilna (Vilnius). Historically the second city of Lithuania, and its capital from 1918-1940. Under Czarist Russian rule, it was the provincial capital, administrative seat for much of central Lithuania, then known as Kovno guberniya.

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The 9th Fort Memorial to 80,000 Holocaust Martyrs outside Kaunas.
(1995 photo by A. Cassel)

Links:

• Kovno Ghetto and the Holocaust
• The Virtual Shtetl -- Kovno
• Kovno Ghetto bibliography
• Simcha Frumkin -- A Kovno ghetto survivor.
• Kovno's Righteous Gentiles
• Contemporary Kovno / Travel
• Cemetery Project -- Kovno cemetery
• "Kaunas In Your Pocket" travel guide
• A profile of Lithuanian Kaunas (non-Jewish)

Other resources:

JewishGen Family Finder

Do you have roots in Kovno? Would you like to connect with others researching the same community? Click the JGFF button to search the JewishGen Family Finder database.

U.S. Holocaust Museum

The Washington, D.C. museum has a database of documents you can search for references to Kovno. Click here to launch your search, or here to learn about the museum and its archives.