Grigory Kanovich, award-winning author who chronicled Lithuanian Jewry, dies at 93

Born in 1929 in the shtetl of Janova, an almost entirely Jewish village just north of Kaunas, the writer and his family escaped the Holocaust in Soviet-controlled Central Asia

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