Elchanan Elkes

1879 - Born in  the western Lithuanian village of Kalvarija.

1903 - He received his medical degree in neurology and other specialties.

1912  - he married Miriam Albin, who bore him two children, a son, Joel, and a daughter, Sara.

           - During the First World War, Elkes served as a physician in the Russian Army and was awarded a
number of decorations. 

1923 - He was head of the department of internal medicine in the Bikkur Holim Jewish hospital in Kovno.

1943 - He was granted an audience with SS Standartenführer Karl Jäger, formerly commander of Einsatzkommando 3 of Einsatzgruppe A, and by then head of the Sicherheitspolizei and SD for Lithuania, a man whose infamous report of 9 February 1942 had boasted of killing 138,272 people, more than 98% of whom were Jews and 34,464 of whom were children.

         - He was able to free a few of the Jews who were to meet their doom during World War II.

1944 - He died there on 17 October,  after a hunger strike, having refused to participate in "selections" in the camp.