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Descriptive Summary
Historical Note
Scope and Contents
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Index Terms
Administrative Information
Description of Series
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A Guide to the Radin Community in Lithuania Collection,
circa 1930-2005
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Creator: |
Radin Community in
Lithuania |
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Title: |
Radin Community in
Lithuania Collection |
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Dates: |
circa
1930-2005 |
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Abstract: |
Photographic prints,
slides, audio cassette tapes, research files, correspondence, news clippings,
periodicals and collected publications document the Jewish community in Radin
prior to World War II and during the Nazi occupation and decimation of the
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Accession No.: |
2008-137 |
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Extent: |
2 feet, 6
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Language: |
Materials are written in
English and Yiddish. |
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Repository: |
Center for American History, The
University of Texas at Austin |
Prior to World War II, Radin, Poland was a
farming village with a sizeable population of Yiddish-speaking Jews. The town
was widely known for its Yeshiva, founded in 1869 by Rabbi Israel Meir
ha-Kohen, the Chofetz Chaim. In 1941, the Nazis occupied the town and
established a Jewish ghetto. A slaughter of the Jewish community took place in
1942. The Jewish community of Radin was not reconstituted after the war.
In the 1970’s, Dr. Frank Kasman obtained a set of glass lantern slides
taken prior to 1933, documenting daily life in pre-World War II Radin. Dr.
Kasman conducted extensive research on the village, located survivors and
immigrants from Radin, and collected oral history interviews.
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Photographic prints, slides, audio
cassette tapes, research files, correspondence, news clippings, periodicals and
collected publications document the Jewish community in Radin prior to World
War II and during the Nazi occupation and decimation of the town. Notable
images in the photograph collection include a portrait of Rav Meris, a village
rabbi, and a photograph featuring Rabbi Israel Meir ha-Kohen.
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Access Restrictions
Unrestricted access.
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Subjects (Persons) |
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Israel Meir, ha-Kohen,
1838-1933. |
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Subjects |
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.
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Holocaust, Jewish
(1939-1945)--Lithuania. |
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Jews--Europe,
Eastern--History--20th century. |
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Radin Community in Lithuania
Collection, circa 1930-2005, Center for American History, The University of
Texas at Austin.
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Inventory: |
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| 2M121 |
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Photographic material |
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Photographic prints and documentation, no.
1-49 |
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Master list of pictures |
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List of photograph captions |
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List of persons in photographs,
alphabetical |
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List of persons in photographs, by slide
number |
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Prints of B’nai and Bnos of Radin |
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Prints of Rav Mendel Zaks, Rav Gershon Zaks, the
Chofetz Hayyim |
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Color photographs of Radin supplied by Yitchak M.
Weisenfeld |
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Transparency slides (95) [restricted] |
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Slideshow notes and documentation |
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| 2M122 |
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Photo album containing prints of Radin |
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| 2M121 |
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News articles and publicity |
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Moment Magazine [contains
photographs of Radin],
January-February 1979 |
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“Radin Remembered,” by Golda Sue Kasman,
Jewish Herald-Voice,
1983 |
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“The Ravaging of Radin,” by Stan Redding,
Texas: Houston Chronicle Magazine,
October 7, 1984 |
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Article typescript, Texas
Magazine,
undated |
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Newspaper clippings,
1984-1985 |
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Publicity material,
1984-1985, 2005 |
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Frank Kasman press slides and photograph,
1985 |
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Notes on the source of pictures and provenance of
collection,
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Kasman biographical material,
undated |
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Stan Redding material [author of series of articles on
Radin and Dr. Kasman’s project],
undated |
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Script 1-2: Radin Program for GLC Television program,
undated |
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“Unique Record of Life in a Shtetl: Life in Radin,”
Suzy Kasman, The Jewish Outlook,
April 1983 |
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“Saintly scholar and folk hero,” The Jerusalem Post International Edition,
October 30-November 5, 1983 |
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“Midland dentist’s photo series shows pre-Nazi life in
a small Lithuanian town,” Midland
Reporter-Telegram,
October 23, 2005 |
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“The life and death of a forgotten village,” Stan
Redding, Onward – Austin-American Statesman,
December 18, 1984 |
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“Radin Remembered,” Jewish
Herald-Voice, p. 39-43,
March 29, 1983 |
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Research material |
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Biographical files, interview transcriptions,
notes |
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Individual files 01-42, labeled by last name,
1979-1985 |
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Other biographical files: Moshe Zyi, Hillel Zachs,
Auraham Ben Ari, Chiam Berkowicz, Leon Young |
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Radin – General information |
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Typewritten article, “Radun,”
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Maps |
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Assorted notes |
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Radin Yeshiva and the Chofetz Hayyim |
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Yivo 1-10 [Lists of Yeshiva students, donors and
contributions, budgets; in Yiddish] |
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“History of Yeshiva Chofetz Hayyim,” by Rabbi David
Zariz, translated by Rabbi Sidney Zimelman,
February 2003 |
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Chofetz Hayyim, Israel Meir Kagan, notes |
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Chofetz Hayyim tributes (two publications, in
Yiddish) |
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News of the YIVO, YIVO
Institute for Jewish Research,
1982-1984 |
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“Did You Conduct Your Business Affairs with Faith?,”
by Rabbi Avrohom Pam, The Jewish Observer,
commentary on Chofetz Hayyim’s “Business Affairs,”
May 1978 |
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Vilna: list of Radun Yeshiva people who moved to
Vilna when Yeshiva closed or also moved |
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Yad Vashem, Jerusalem documents |
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Beryl and David Bachshot |
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Description of the liquidation of the Radin
Ghetto |
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Assorted translated documents |
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Testimony from survivor Chaim Berkowitz |
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Document 3, YV [in Yiddish] |
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Document 5, YV, translated, Chaim
Berkovitz |
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Collected publications |
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“KZ – Bildbericht aus fünf Konzentrationslagern”
[“Pictorial Report of Five Concentration Camps”], in German, published by the
American War Information Office,
1945 |
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Paper on Yiddish translation, by Gail Tosto-Geiger,
for Professor Charles Robert Kline, Jr.,
September 1985 |
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News articles on Meirke Stoler,
1997 and undated |
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Newsletter: "The Radin Newsletter," Number 1,
September 1983 |
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Correspondence |
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General correspondence,
1979-1983, 1984-1985 |
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Yeshiva letter,
August 1983 |
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Administrative material: Addresses, labels, interview
sheets, forms |
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Audio cassette tapes: Interviews and oral
histories |
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Belkin, Mrs. Samuel (Abby),
May 31, 1983 |
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Ben Ari, Abraham,
August 10, 1981 |
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Kaplan, Harry, Brooklyn, New York,
1983 |
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Kowitz, Hersch,
undated |
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Kuvalski, Yaakov,
undated |
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Lebovitz, Pesha Trop,
June 1, 1983 |
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Leverton, Y., translations, two tapes,
undated |
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Pupko, Rabbi Isaac, two tapes, Brooklyn,
May 31 and June 2, 1983 |
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Vishniak, Roman,
1985 |
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Young, Leon (Leibke Yankelovich), with typewritten
transcription,
undated |
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Zaks, Feiga, “Daughter of the Chofetz Hayyim.
Interviewed with her son, Ron Gershon Zachs, Rabbi Moshe Kolodny, Dr. [?]
Kamov, Rabbi Yisrael Mayer Zadis,” New York City,
June 1983 |
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Miscellaneous notes,
undated |
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VHS video cassette tapes, undated |
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Radin 1, 2, 7 |
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Holocaust 1, 2 and 3 |
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Liberation of the death camp (4) |
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Light of the Southwest, Guests: Dr. Charles Scott, Dr.
Ariel Revel, Dr. Frank Kasman |
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DVDs, undated |
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Light of the Southwest [God’s Learning
Channel] |
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Guest: Dr. Frank Kasman |
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Guests: Kasman and Borik |
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Guests: Kasman & Todd |
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Compact discs |
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Leon Young,
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Radin photos, Touch-ups, copy,
July 12, 2005 |
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Radin photos, from Jimmy L. Patterson |
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Exhibit material |
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Exhibit labels |
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Exhibit prints (16” x 20”) |
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| 2W75a |
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Exhibit prints (12” x 15”) |
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| 3Z319b |
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