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Images from the Kovno Ghetto

The USHMM Collection

  

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A group of children in the Kovno ghetto. Kovno, Lithuania, between 1941 and 1943
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A group of Jewish women are gathered near the market square in the Kovno ghetto
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A group of Jews tend one of the vegetable gardens in the Kovno ghetto
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A Jewish policeman helps a family carry their luggage from the Abba Haskel synagogue to the assembly point for deportation in the Kovno ghetto
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A Jewish policeman helps two women move their belongings to new quarters in the Kovno ghetto
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A meeting of the Kovno ghetto Jewish council. Chairman Elchanan Elkes sits at the center. Kovno, Lithuania, 1943
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A member of the Kovno ghetto underground hides supplies in a well used as the entrance to a hiding place in the ghetto. Kovno, Lithuania, 1942
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A woman and child pose on the street in front of a wooden house in the Kovno ghetto
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An elderly woman carrying a purse stands among bundles of personal possessions in a public square of the Kovno ghetto
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An impoverished ghetto resident sells bread on the black market. Kovno, Lithuania, between 1941 and 1943
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Children from the Jewish kindergarten (located at 9 Mapu Street) in Kovno, Lithuania
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Deportation from the Kovno ghetto to forced-labor camps in Estonia. Kovno, Lithuania, October 1943
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