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Kovno Governorate[a] was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire, with its capital in Kovno (Kaunas). It was formed on 18 December 1842 by Tsar Nicholas I from the western part of Vilna Governorate, and the order was carried out on 1 July 1843. It was part of the Vilna Governorate-General and Northwestern Krai.
Aug 13, 2021 · Kovno Before World War II. Between 1920 and 1939, Kovno (Kaunas), located in central Lithuania, was the country's capital and largest city. In 1939, it had a Jewish population of approximately 32,000. This was about one-fourth of the city's total population. Jews were concentrated in the city's commercial, artisan, and professional sectors.
Russian fortified city in the government of the same name; situated at the junction of the Viliya and the Niemen. There is documentary evidence that Jews lived and traded in Kovno toward the end of the fifteenth century. At the time of the expulsion of the Jews from Lithuania by Alexander Jagellon (1495) the post of assessor of Kovno was held ...
It was here in this suburban district known to the Jews as Slobodka that on German orders, the Kovno (as Kaunas was once called) Ghetto was sealed on August 15, 1941 with 29,000 impounded people. The area had been a Jewish village for four hundred years. Jewish history runs particularly deep in Lithuania. Before the war, some 200 communities ...
Kovno (Kaunas) was Lithuania’s capital in the interwar period (1920-1939). The Jewish community numbered 35,000-40,000 – about a fourth of the city’s population – with tens of Jewish institutions, 40 synagogues, institutions of higher Jewish learning, especially the worldwide famous Slobodka Yeshiva, Yiddish and Hebrew schools, a Jewish hospital, Zionist organizations
Megilat Kovno, a recounting of the story, was read annually on Purim in the old study hall—the first place of prayer established in Kovno. When the city was incorporated into Russia in 1795, its population was roughly 8,500, of whom 1,508 were Jews. The Jewish population of the town began to grow in the early decades of the nineteenth century ...
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He died in 1921 in Kisingen. Originally, the Jews of Kovno wanted Oscar Gruzenberg to be elected, but the authorities denied his rights to candidacy. In May 22-29 of 1909, there was a meeting of Jewish public workers in Kovno; people came from all over the Russian Empire.
