Dana Pomerants-Mazurkevich (F / Lithuania, 1941), Holocaust survivor

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Dana Pomerants-Mazurkevich (F / Lithuania, 1941), Holocaust survivor

Biography

USHMM Oral Interview

Dana Pomerants-Mazurkevich, born in 1941 in the ghetto in Kaunas, Lithuania, discusses her parents; her father Daniel Pomerants, who was a well-known pre-war violinist in Lithuania; being smuggled out at age one and a half in 1942; being adopted by the family of a very prominent opera singer in Lithuania, Kipras Petrauskas, and his wife, stage actress, Elena Zalinkevicaite Petrauskas; her parents’ survival and reuniting with them in 1947 in Lithuania; becoming a violinist; and immigrating to the United States as an adult.

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