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.
Photograph | Photograph Number: 10917
- Photographer
- George Kadish/Zvi Kadushin
- Date
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1944 January 24
- Variant Locale
- Kauen
Kovno
Kowno - Photo Designation
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GHETTOS (MAJOR) -- KOVNO (Lithuania) -- Documents
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of George Kadish/Zvi Kadushin
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.
The Yiddish text reads: " Warning! By an order of the camp commandant the inhabitants are warned that if they receive any [goods] through the fence they will be shot without warning. The Jewish Council warns the residents not to go close to the fence in order to avoid being killed."
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