Members of the Kovno ghetto firefighting brigade aim a hose at an upstairs window of a house in the ghetto.
Overview
- Caption
- Members of the Kovno ghetto firefighting brigade aim a hose at an upstairs window of a house in the ghetto.
- Photographer
- George Kadish/Zvi Kadushin
- Date
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1941 - 1944
- Locale
- Kaunas, Lithuania
- Variant Locale
- Kauen
Kovno
Kowno - Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of George Kadish/Zvi Kadushin
- Event History
- The Kovno ghetto fire department was made up of former volunteer firemen. Though their main purpose was to put out fires, the ghetto firemen spent most of their time on an array of other tasks including maintaining the ghetto fence, burying the dead, transporting the sick to ghetto hospitals and retrieving valuables hidden in wells for transfer to ghetto authorities.
See https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005174
See Also "Kauen Main Camp" in Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos Volume 1 Part A.
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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USHMM (Restricted)
Copyright: Exclusively with provenanceProvenance: George Kadish/Zvi KadushinSource Record ID: Collections: CR 1503.029Yad Vashem Photo and Film Archives
Copyright: Agency AgreementProvenance: Avraham Tory
Keywords & Subjects
- Record last modified:
- 2005-05-12 00:00:00
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