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ksl-#1:
German troops advance towards Kovno. The sign in the photograph
reads, Kaunas (Kovno), 98 kilometers.Credit: Lithuanian Photographic
and Video Archives
click to read the Introduction http://www.ushmm.org/kovno/intro/intro.htm
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ksl-#2:
Smoke from German shelling billows over the city of Kovno, June
22-25, 1941. Credit: George Kadish, photographer, Beit Hatefutsoth,
Israel
click to read the story of the Invasion http://www.ushmm.org/kovno/invade/invade.htm
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ksl-#3:
Order #1" as printed
in the Lithuanian Activist Front newspaper I
Laisve [To freedom], July 28, 1941. Credit: Lithuanian Central
State
Archives, Vilnius
[translation]
Order No. 1
1. The Jewish population is not allowed to walk on the sidewalk.
Jews
are to walk single file on the right side of the street.
2. The Jewish population is not allowed walk on the promenades
and are
not allowed in any public parks. Likewise, the Jewish population
is
not allowed to sit on public benches.
3. The Jewish population is not allowed to use any public
transportation such as taxis, coaches, buses, boats, and similar
vehicles of transportation. The proprietors and owners of all
public
vehicles of transportation must post a visible notice on the vehicle
stating: "Jews Not Permitted."
4. Any violations
of these orders will be severely punished.
5. These orders are to be enforced as of today. SA-Colonel Hans
Cramer, City Commissioner
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ksl-#4:
Moving into the Kovno ghetto. Credit: George Kadish, photographer,
George Kadish, Florida
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ksl-#5:
Moving into the Kovno ghetto. Credit: George Kadish, photographer,
Beth Hatefutsoth, Tel Aviv, Israel
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ksl-#6:
Carts loaded with the possessions of Kovno's Jews head towards the
bridge to Slobodka while empty carts return to the city, July-August,
1941. Credit: Avraham and Pnina Tory, Israel
to read about it go to;
Ghettoization
http://www.ushmm.org/kovno/ghetto/ghetto.htm
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ksl-#7:
The Jewish Council. Chairman Elkes is seated third from left, and
Vice-Chairman Leib Garfunkel is to his far right.Credit: Avraham
and Pnina Tory, Israel. Photograph by George Kadish, Beth Hatefutsoth,
Israel
Inside the Ghetto -- Jewish Council to read about it click;
http://www.ushmm.org/kovno/council/photo2.htm
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ksl-#8:
Jewish laborers at the Aleksotas airfield. Credit:YIVO
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ksl-#9:
The shoe-making workshop. Credit: Abrahm and Pnina Tory, Israel
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ksl-#11:Final
Days
On October 26, 1943, the SS deported 2,709 persons from the ghetto.
Those deemed fit for work were sent to harsh labor camps in northern
Estonia, while children and the elderly were deported to Auschwitz.
Few survived.Credit: George Kadish, Florida
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ksl-#12:
Kovno ghetto Jews during
the Estonian Deportations, October 1943. Credit: George Kadish,
Florida
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ksl-#13:
The ruins of Kovno
Ghetto.Credit: George Kadish, photographer
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ksl-#14:
George Kadish, lorida
Esther Lurie, Deportation to a Labor Camp
pen and ink, 1943.Credit: Esther Lurie, Israel
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ksl-#15:
Kovno ghetto in flames.Credit:
George Kadish, photographer; Beth Hatefutsoth, Israel
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ksl-#16:
Final muster of the
Jewish Police before they were taken to Fort IX.Credit: George
kadish, photographer, Beth Hatefutsoth, Israel
In an effort to obtain information about the ghetto's underground
and about the locations of hidden bunkers, the Gestapo arrested
and tortured some 130 Jewish policemen at Fort IX. 36 men are
killed after refusing to cooperate, including Police Chief Moshe
Levin and his assistants, Joshua Greenberg and Yehuda Zupowitz.
For the rest go to;
http://www.ushmm.org/kovno/real/final.htm
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ksl-#17:
Mass Murder Einsatzgruppe
member kills a Jewish woman and her child near Ivangorod, Ukraine.
1942. Credit: Jerzy Tomaszewski, Poland
Mobile killing units (Einsatzgruppen) followed the German army
during its invasion of the Baltics and the western Soviet Union,
first killing Jewish men, Soviet political commissars, and others
considered racially or politically dispensable. Months after the
invasion, Mobile killing units turned to the execution of women
and children. Open air killings continued in areas of eastern
Europe during 1942 and by the spring of 1943, Einstagruppen units
A-D had killed over million persons. ....
For the rest go to;
http://www.ushmm.org/kovno/mass/photo.htm
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| ksl-#19: Yaakov Shalom Svirski
Jakob Svirsky was born in Kowna, Lithuania in 1920 to Zalman and
Khaia Rivka. He was a student in the university and single. Prior to
WWII he lived in Kowna, Lithuania. During the war was in Kowna,
Lithuania. Jakob perished in Kowna, Lithuania on his birthday of 21 in
August of 1941. This information is based on a Page of Testimony
submitted on 03/10/1956 by his sister Dvora
for more details ( in Hebrew) go to Link
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ksl-#20:The story of Uri and Dani Chanoch ( in Hebrew)
Link
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ksl-#22:
Story of Yerachmiel Siniuk and Yitzchak Fein who were saved by the Urbanas Family
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