Kaunas Ghetto
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The Kaunas Ghetto (also called the Kovno Ghetto) was a ghetto established by Nazi Germany to hold the Jews of the Lithuanian city of Kaunas during the Holocaust. At its peak, the Ghetto held 30,000 people, most of whom were later sent to concentration camps, extermination camps, or were shot at the Ninth Fort. About 500 Jews escaped on work detail and joined Soviet partisan forces in the surrounding forests. Of the 37,000 Jews in Kaunas, less than 3,000 survived the war.
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- US Holocaust Museum on the Kovno Ghetto
- Kovno Ghetto Web Page By Jose Gutstein
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