Archive of letters, family photographs and personal diary of sons and daughters of the Elkes family. Kaunas, 20s-40s.
Dr. Elchanan Elkes was the Kaunas community head, and "Head of the Jews" in the ghetto. The archive has approximately seventy handwritten letters: several telegrams from Eretz Israel from the 1920s, and letters from the time of the Holocaust and later (most of the letters are in German, some in English), approx one hundred family photographs, personal diary of daughter (Sarah) from 1937-1939, copy of letter written by Dr. Elkes, last letter written as a testament to his children in England, days before the expulsion from the Kovno Ghetto. Dr. Elkes was sent to Dachau, where he perished. The archive has been scanned for documentation in Yad Vashem. Various sizes and conditions.