The Yiddish words, "Jews Revenge!" scrawled in blood on the apartment floor of a Jew murdered in the Slobodka pogrom. [oversized photo]

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 04640

Overview

Caption: The Yiddish words, "Jews Revenge!" scrawled in blood on the apartment floor of a Jew murdered in the Slobodka pogrom. [oversized photo]
Photographer: George Kadish/Zvi Kadushin
Date: 1941 June 26
Locale: Kaunas, Lithuania
Variant Locale: Kauen
Kovno
Kowno
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of George Kadish/Zvi Kadushin
Event History: On the night of June 25-26, 1941, one day after the German occupation of Kovno, Lithuanian nationalists unleashed a massive pogrom in the district of Vilijampole, known to Jews as Slobodka. Over eight hundred Jews were murdered in their homes in the most savage manner without any interference from Lithuanian or German authorities.

"Kauen Main Camp" in Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos Volume 1, Part A.

Photo Source: USHMM (Restricted)

Copyright: Exclusively with provenance

Provenance: George Kadish/Zvi Kadushin
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

Copyright: Agency Agreement

Source Record ID: 120 Lithuania: Kaunas Ghetto 34
Published Source: The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust... - Berenbaum, Michael - Little, Brown and Company - p. 92

Keyword: CLOSE-UPS GRAFFITI POGROMS POGROMS (KOVNO)
Photo Designation: GHETTOS (MAJOR) -- KOVNO (Lithuania) -- Pogroms -- Slobodka