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Oct 27, 2019 · Back in the 1930s, a prominent family of Litvaks and Klaipėda business owners ‒ the Nafthals ‒ lived in a house on Liepų Street. Nathan was the most successful of the three brothers – even before World War One, he brokered in wood trade and organised timber exports.
His mother survived the siege of the city during World War II, while his father was one of the few in his large family to survive the Nazis. The Litvak family left the Soviet Union and immigrated to Belgium via Poland , settling in Brussels in 1962.
When World War II broke out, the artist moved to Russia, where he met his future wife. In 1944 both returned to war-devastated Vilnius, where Rafael captured portraits of Holocaust survivors with painstaking detail and sketvhed surviving fragments of the city’s Jewish quarter.
Despite being neutral at the start of World War II, Belgium and its colonial possessions found themselves at war after the country was invaded by German forces on 10 May 1940.
This is the story of one family. It was May 1940 and Eva Zusman, her husband Stanislas and four-year-old daughter Anita had arrived in the Belgian beach resort of De Panne from their home in...
On the 1st March 1943 Litvak and her friend, Katya Budanova, flying as part of a four-ship flight intercepted a dozen Fw.190s on a ground support mission near Stalingrad. Two of the Focke-Wulfs were shot down , one of them claimed by Lllya Litvak in a Yak-1.
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Many key archival holdings form the Second World War, such as court files about collaboration, contain privacy-sensitive information and are therefore not accessible online. On the other hand, the voluminous collections of pamphlets, posters, war journals and photographs mostly kept at CegeSoma are available online.
