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1. A group of boys look at a sign prohibiting Jews from going into the Vilija River which boarded the ghetto.

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Date:: 1941 - 1944

2. A Jewish man standing at an entrance to a workshop in the ghetto. The sign (in German) reads, "Entrance to this workshop is forbidden to everyone without a written permission of the camp Kommandant."

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Date:: Circa 1943

3. View of a destroyed building in Kovno which housed the G. Gutman Judaica store.

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Date:: August 1944

4. An announcement in Yiddish posted by the Jewish Council of the Kovno ghetto, dated January 24, 1944, warning ghetto residents against approaching too close to the ghetto fence.

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Date:: 1944 January 24

5. Jewish policeman next to the workshops in the Kovno ghetto once the ghetto had officially become a concentration camp. The K-L on the sign stands for "Konzentrations lager".

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Date:: Circa September 1943 - July 1944

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