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Under the supervision of a Soviet policeman, the charred remains of Jews from the Kovno ghetto are carried on a makeshift stretcher to a mass grave. The man in the foreground appears to be a German POW. Behind him is Moshe Volbershteyn, a member of the Zionist underground who is working for the Chevre Kaddisha, Jewish burial society.

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    Under the supervision of a Soviet policeman, the charred remains of Jews from the Kovno ghetto are carried on a makeshift stretcher to a mass grave. The man in the foreground appears to be a German POW. Behind him is Moshe Volbershteyn, a member of the Zionist underground who is working for the Chevre Kaddisha, Jewish burial society.
    Under the supervision of a Soviet policeman, the charred remains of Jews from the Kovno ghetto are carried on a makeshift stretcher to a mass grave. The man in the foreground appears to be a German POW. Behind him is Moshe Volbershteyn, a member of the Zionist underground who is working for the Chevre Kaddisha, Jewish burial society.

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    Under the supervision of a Soviet policeman, the charred remains of Jews from the Kovno ghetto are carried on a makeshift stretcher to a mass grave. The man in the foreground appears to be a German POW. Behind him is Moshe Volbershteyn, a member of the Zionist underground who is working for the Chevre Kaddisha, Jewish burial society.
    Photographer
    George Kadish/Zvi Kadushin
    Date
    August 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 liquidation of the Kovno ghetto/concentration camp began on Saturday, July 8, 1944, three weeks before the Soviet liberation of the city. Approximately 6,100 Jews were transported over a six-day period to concentration camps: the women to Stutthof and the men to Dachau. Knowing that thousands failed to appear for the round-ups and likely remained hidden in bunkers, the SS ordered German troops to raze the former ghetto. Every house was blown up and the ruins doused with gasoline and incinerated. Thousands were either burned to death or shot trying to flee. The fires burned for a week, leaving a charred landscape of rubble and stone chimneys. Only approximately 100 Jews survived the liquidation.

    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.
    See Also https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005162.

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    Copyright: Exclusively with provenance
    Provenance: George Kadish/Zvi Kadushin

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    1998-05-27 00:00:00
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