humanity, compassion and ethics to medical training. Elkes was born of Jewish parents Elkhanan and Miriam in the city of Königsberg (now Kaliningrad)...

newspaper, Nitsots (Spark), handwritten and illegally distributed. Elkhanan Elkes, head of the Judenrat at Kovno, was the camp elder of Kaufering I, where...

The Jewish council (Aeltestenrat; "Council of Elders"), headed by Dr. Elkhanan Elkes, and his deputy, Leib Garfunkel, also created workshops inside the ghetto...