Kovno
Americannoun
noun
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Mr. Barak survived after he was smuggled in a sack to another part of Kovno, and then sheltered by Lithuanian farmers.
From New York Times ● May 5, 2023
Born in 1936 in Lithuania, Mr. Barak was nearly 5 when Nazi soldiers occupied his city of Kovno, now Kaunas.
From New York Times ● May 5, 2023
In the Kovno ghetto in central Lithuania, the rabbi reluctantly told the leaders to draw up a list and save as many lives as possible, even though many others would be sacrificed.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 21, 2022
He was arrested in Kovno, in 1885, for his membership in the Proletariat Party, a social-revolutionary group, and sentenced, without trial, to exile in Siberia for five years.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 30, 2016
On August 10, 1915, the Russians attempted an unsuccessful sortie from Kovno.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War by Francis Trevelyan Miller
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