Jewish ghetto in Kaunas, German-occupied Lithuania during World War II
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Kovno Ghetto
Monument of the Kaunas Ghetto
Location
Kaunas, German-occupied Lithuania
Date
Summer 1941 to autumn 1943
Incident type
Imprisonment, mass shootings, forced labor, starvation, mass deportations to Auschwitz and conversion into a labour camp
Perpetrators
Germany
Participants
Waffen-SS
Organizations
Schutzstaffel, RSHA
Camp
Auschwitz
Victims
29,000
Survivors
3,000
Ghettos Reichskommissariat Ostland (marked with red-gold stars)
The Kovno Ghetto was a ghetto established by Nazi Germany to hold the Lithuanian Jews of Kaunas (Kovno) during the Holocaust. At its peak, the ghetto held 29,000 people, most of whom were later sent to concentration and extermination camps, or were shot at the Ninth Fort. About 500 Jews escaped from work details and directly from the ghetto, and joined Jewish and Soviet partisan forces in the distant forests of southeast Lithuania and Belarus.
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and English lyrics. Several ghetto writers used Goldfaden's lullaby as the basis for new songs: out of the KovnoGhetto came In Slobodker yeshiva (In...
Kaunas (Kovno) Ghetto be surrounded with barbed wire fences to prevent people from jumping off. This order also forbade the Jews of the Kovnoghetto to use...
the KovnoGhetto, poet Avrom Akselrod wrote the song with the melody of "Oyf'n Pripetshik" known under the titles "Baym geto toyerl" ("At the ghetto gate"...
Malnik, was a Holocaust survivor from Lithuania who was sent to KovnoGhetto, a Jewish ghetto, and was later imprisoned at Dachau concentration camp, Flossenbürg...
archive detailing events in Lithuania's KovnoGhetto from June 1941 to January 1944. As secretary of the Ghetto's Jewish Council of Elders, Tory had access...
300-bed academic medical facility. 20 Iyar (1942) – All pregnant women in KovnoGhetto sentenced to death by the Nazis. 22 Iyar (1731) – Jewish books begin...
victims of the Ninth Fort, a Nazi execution site for the Jews in the KovnoGhetto. The monument is 105 feet (32 m) high. The mass burial place of the victims...
Stelmokas, who participated in the 1941 massacre of 9,000 Jews of the KovnoGhetto. Malnik recorded a survivor testimony for the collection at the Alabama...
After the Nazi occupation of the city in 1941, the family was in the Kovnoghetto. In an interview with HaOlam HaZeh, Barak told how a Lithuanian farmer...
but he also focused on the spiritual life of the Jews living in the KovnoGhetto and concentration camp. Despite being starved and beaten, the Jews continued...
with family in Kovno, she was deported to the Kovnoghetto during the German occupation of Lithuania. While imprisoned at the Kovnoghetto, and later the...
to Kovno, where he established a Musar-focused yeshiva at the Nevyozer Kloiz. In 1857 he moved to Germany. By this time his own students from Kovno had...
the underground Hebrew-language publication Nitzotz, circulated in the KovnoGhetto and Dachau concentration camp; the Israeli Labor Party newspaper, Davar;...
experience of a family of local Holocaust survivors whose confinement in the KovnoGhetto and harried escape to a farm in the Lithuanian countryside highlight...
Soviet POWs, most of them from nearby Vilnius, and its newly formed Vilna Ghetto. Along with 90 LTDF officers who refused to carry orders by the Germans...
1997), was a Lithuanian Jewish photographer who documented life in the KovnoGhetto during the Holocaust, the period of the Nazi German genocide against...
World War, Grün & Bilfinger employed Jewish slave laborers from the KovnoGhetto in occupied Lithuania where it was known for its brutal harassment of...
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June of that same year. He was the vice chair of the Ältestenrat of the KovnoGhetto between 1941 and 1944, which was when Nazi Germany was occupying Lithuania...
place is with the people of my city. I am going to Kovno." He died of an illness in the KovnoGhetto on February 27, 1943. He is buried in the same cemetery...
the site of the Warsaw Ghetto on 8 September 1951. Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland Gross Aktion in the KovnoGhetto, known as Kaunas massacre...
singers and other musicians. She was one of the few survivors of the KovnoGhetto. Nadezhda Dukstulskaite was born in a Jewish family of musicians in what...
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