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{{Short description|Lithuanian-born photographer and Holocaust survivor (1910–1997)}}
'''George Kadish''', born '''Zvi (Hirsh) Kadushin''' (1910 {{endash}} September 1997), was a [[Lithuanian Jews|Lithuanian Jewish]] photographer who documented life in the [[Kovno Ghetto]] during the [[Holocaust]], the period of the [[Nazi German]] genocide against Jews.

Prior to [[World War II]] he was a mathematics, science and electronics teacher at a Hebrew High School in [[Kovno]], [[Lithuania]].

As a hobby, Kadish was a photographer.  He was skilled at making home-made cameras.  During the period of Nazi control of Lithuania (along with indigenous Lithuanian collaborators) he successfully photographed various scenes of life and its difficulties in the ghetto in clandestine circumstances.  Kadish constructed cameras by which he could photograph through the buttonhole of his coat or over a window sill.  He was able to photograph sensitive scenes that would attract the ire of Nazis or collaborators, such as scenes of people gathered for forced labor, burning of the ghetto, and deportations.<ref>United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto: A Project of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, Washington, DC, 1997.</ref> [http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005174  ]

His photographs were featured in a 2003 exhibition at the [[YIVO]] Institute in New York.

==Bibliography==
*Kadish, George, et al. ''Days of Remembrance, 1987: Family Life in the Kovno Ghetto.'' San Francisco, CA: Mellen Research University Press, 1991.  Book is catalog of his work, as displayed in 1987 at the Russell Senate Office Building.

"George's Kaddish for Kovno and the Six Million." Catherine Gong, edited by Michael Berenbaum. 2009. Also located at Stanford University (Cecil H. Green), United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archive, and Tom Lantos Foundation for Human Rights.

See also, http://catherinegong.com/georges-kaddish-for-kovno-and-the-six-million/

==References==
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2. "The Final Reckoning" Author Sam Bourne : Published by Harper Collins.  References to George Kadish

==External links==
* [http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005174  link to online Holocaust Encyclopedia article with links to photographs by Kadish]
* [http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/kovno/kovno_pages/kovno_stories_links.html webpage with several photographs of life in the ghetto]

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