Kovno Ghetto
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.
| 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 |
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