Kovno

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• Avraham Tory, the chronicler of life in the ghetto of Kovno, Lithuania, under Nazi rule, was brought up to the altar, yet survived to remember.

  Academic text (1994)

• Created by fiat and set off by a border of barbed wire, the Kovno ghetto in which Tory wrote was a work of political art: a way of making life coherent within its limits.

  Academic text (1994)

• Kovno.

  The Great Raid (2005)

• The loss of Warsaw, Lemberg, Chamisil and now both Kovno and Novogeorgias in the same week.

• To read the diary of the Kovno ghetto, entry after calendar entry, is to move in imagination toward a historical end which we can understand only as a literary mode.

  Academic text (1994)

• Seated before a Harvard University Press book called Surviving the Holocaust: The Kovno Ghetto Diary, one can only try to imagine what it might mean not to have survived, not to be reading in translation.

  Academic text (1994)

• The city of Kovno was known for its rich Jewish history before World War II.

• During the war, many residents of Kovno had to flee to avoid the Nazi regime.

Synonyms

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Kaunas

vsKovno

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A city in central Lithuania where the Nemunas and Neris rivers meet

is the former name used for the same city

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Etymology