George's Kaddish for Kovno and the Six Million

• Author(s): Catherine Gong,
• Publisher: Xlibris
• Pages: 126
• ISBN_10: 1436355540
  ISBN_13: 9781436355544
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Europe / Baltic States , History / Jewish , History / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust , Photography / Photoessays & Documentaries ,

Description:... George Kaddish, born as Zvi Hirsch Kadushin (1910-1997) was a photograher, who, as an inmate of the Kovno ghetto, clandestinely photographed everyday life in the ghetto and thus created a photo-monument to the ghetto and its inhabitants. After the war he changed his family name to Kaddish, regarding himself as a kaddish prayer for the Six Million. Presents his photographs, provided with excerpts from Solly Ganor's book "Light One Candle", survivors' testimonies, and Gong's conversations with the photographer shortly before his death.