Dana Pomerantz — Association of Jews of Vilna and vicinity in Israel

Kipras Petrauskas (November 23, 1885 as Ciprijonas Petrauskas – January 17, 1968) was a Lithuanian operatic tenor (created around 80 roles), professor, and Lithuanian Association of Artists member. The national opera foundation is associated with him. He was married to Elena Žalinkevičaitė-Petrauskienė. In 1942, he was asked to hide a Jewish baby girl, Dana Pomerantz, which he and his wife agreed to do. To hide the girl better, he and his wife left the city, moving first to a Lithuanian village, and later to Austria and then Germany. In 1947, they came back to Lithuania, found Dana's parents, and gave her back to them. In 1999, Petrauskas and his wife were recognized by Yad Vashem as two of the Righteous Among the Nations.

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Balys Simanavicius helped Kipras save Dana Pomeranz.

On June 11, 2018, the violinist and educator Prof. Dana Pomerantz-Mazurkevich from Boston visited the Museum of Tolerance at the Gaon Museum. Her miraculous rescue story in the Holocaust is told in the documentary "The Sisters". Dana brought to the Museum a Violin created in Paris in 1806, which belonged to her father Daniel Pomerantz (1904-1981), a prominent violinist and pioneer of jazz music in Lithuania. Pomerantz studied the violin at the Kaunas School of Music and at the Berlin Conservatory. In Vienna he attended master classes given by prominent violinist Bronislaw Huberman. In Berlin, Pomerantz played in cafes and the Mark Weber Orchestra, one of the most popular orchestras in Europe at the time. During the Nazi occupation, Pomerantz was imprisoned in the Kaunas (Kovno) ghetto. Together with another prominent artist, Moishe Hofmeckler, he organized a ghetto orchestra, which included 40 members. He was later imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp.