The destruction of Jewish Kovno (Kaunas, Lithuania) : translation of Umkum fun der Yidisher Kovne / original book edited by: Joseph Gar.

Includes indexes.

Includes "Jewish Institutions in the Kovno ghetto (Monograph)."

Remarks about the situation of Lithuanian Jewry during the years 1918-1940 -- One year of Soviet rule in Lithuania (June 1940-June 1941) -- Outbreak of the German-Soviet war and the panicked evacuation -- First mass-action against the Jewish population in Kovno -- Horrible killing at the Seventh Fort -- The establishment of the ghetto in Slabodka -- Jewish victims before locking the ghetto -- Action of the intellectuals right after the lock up of the ghetto -- The robbery of Jewish belongings -- Test action -- The first "organized" mas action in the ghetto -- Action and liquidation of the small ghetto -- The big action -- The situation in the ghetto during the first few months after the big action (November 1941-January 1942) -- The first relocation action to Riga -- Life in the ghetto in the period between the two relocation actions to Riga (February-October 1942) -- The second relocation action to Riga -- A hanging in the ghetto -- "The Stallingrad action" -- Important events in the ghetto in the spring and summer of 1943 -- Preparations to turn the ghetto into a series of separate labor camps -- Relocation action to Estonia -- From relocation action to Estonia until the eve of the action on the children, the old and the sick (November 1943-March 1944) -- Children, old and sick people action -- Difficult situation in the ghetto between April-June 1944 -- Deportation and liquidation of the ghetto -- Fate of the deported Jews -- After liberation -- Cruel blood reckoning -- Jewish institutions in the Kovno ghetto (monograph).