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Close-up of a Jewish vendor in the Kovno ghetto who was known as "Hamster" for gathering and selling bread on the black market.

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    Close-up of a Jewish vendor in the Kovno ghetto who was known as "Hamster" for gathering and selling bread on the black market.
    Close-up of a Jewish vendor in the Kovno ghetto who was known as "Hamster" for gathering and selling bread on the black market. A few days after this photo was taken, he was shot by the Germans.

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    Close-up of a Jewish vendor in the Kovno ghetto who was known as "Hamster" for gathering and selling bread on the black market.

    A few days after this photo was taken, he was shot by the Germans.
    Photographer
    George Kadish/Zvi Kadushin
    Date
    1941 - 1943
    Locale
    Kaunas, Lithuania
    Variant Locale
    Kauen
    Kovno
    Kowno
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of George Kadish/Zvi Kadushin

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    Photo Source
    USHMM (Restricted)
    Copyright: Exclusively with provenance
    Provenance: George Kadish/Zvi Kadushin
    Published Source
    Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Little, Brown and Company - p.145

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    Record last modified:
    2020-06-23 00:00:00
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