George Kadish

George Kadish

George Kadish, born Zvi (Hirsh) Kadushin (died September 1997), was a Lithuanian Jewish photographer who documented life in the Kovno Ghetto during the Holocaust, the period of the Nazi German genocide against Jews.

Prior to World War II he was a mathematics, science and electronics teacher at a Hebrew High School in Kovno, Lithuania.

As a hobby, Kadish was a photographer. He was skilled at making home-made cameras. During the period of Nazi control of Lithuania (along with indigenous Lithuanian collaborators) he successfully photographed various scenes of life and its difficulties in the ghetto in clandestine circumstances. Kadish constructed cameras by which he could photograph through the bottonhole of his coat or over a window sill. He was able to photograph sensitive scenes that would attract the ire of Nazis or collaborators, such as scenes of people gathered for forced labor, burning of the ghetto, and deportations. [United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto: A Project of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, Washington, DC, 1997.] [http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005174 ]

His photographs were featured in a 2003 exhibition at the YIVO Institute in New York.

ee also

*Holocaust
*Kovno Ghetto
*Kaunas, Lithuanian name for Kovno

Bibliography

*Kadish, George, et al. "Days of Remembrance, 1987: Family Life in the Kovno Ghetto." San Francisco, CA: Mellen Research University Press, 1991. Book is catalog of his work, as displayed in 1987 at the Russell Senate Office Building.

References

2. "The Final Reckoning" Author Sam Bourne : Published by Harper Collins. References to George Kadish

External links

* [http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005174 link to online Holocaust Encyclopedia article with links to photographs by Kadish]
* [http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/kovno/kovno_pages/kovno_stories_links.html webpage with several photographs of life in the ghetto]
* [http://www.forward.com/articles/how-a-buttonhole-camera-kept-kovno-s-past-alive/ as a subject in an article in "Jewish Daily Forward"']
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950CE3D6153EF93BA3575AC0A96E958260 Article on George Kadish in the New York Times, including mention of death]


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