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Members of the Jewish fire brigade in the Kovno ghetto pose outside around their fire vehicle.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 81140
Members of the Jewish fire brigade in the Kovno ghetto pose outside around their fire vehicle. Among those pictured is Yankel Kaplan (at the far right).

Members of the Jewish fire brigade in the Kovno ghetto pose outside around their fire vehicle.

Among those pictured is Yankel Kaplan (at the far right).

Photographer
George Kadish/Zvi Kadushin
Date
1944
Locale
Kaunas, Lithuania
Variant Locale
Kauen
Kovno
Kowno
Photo Designation
GHETTOS (MAJOR) -- KOVNO (Lithuania) -- Ghetto Administration -- Firefighters
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of George Kadish/Zvi Kadushin

About This Photograph

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.

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Rights and Restrictions

Photo Source
USHMM (Restricted)
Copyright: Exclusively with provenance
Provenance: George Kadish/Zvi Kadushin
Source Record ID: Collections: CR 1503.030
 
Record last modified: 2003-03-25 00:00:00
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