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    Kovno Ghetto Diary. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. pp. 43–60. ISBN 0-674-85810-7. Eilat Gordin Levitan. "Elchanan Elkes, Kovno Stories"...
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    concentration camp system. Some of the forced-labor camps for Jews and some ghettos, such as Kovno, were designated concentration camps, while others were dissolved...
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    Theodor Adrian von Renteln (category Kovno Ghetto)
    Kaunas (Kovno) Ghetto be surrounded with barbed wire fences to prevent people from jumping off. This order also forbade the Jews of the Kovno ghetto to use...
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  • Oyfn Pripetshik (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    the Kovno Ghetto, poet Avrom Akselrod wrote the song with the melody of "Oyf'n Pripetshik" known under the titles "Baym geto toyerl" ("At the ghetto gate"...
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  • Malnik, was a Holocaust survivor from Lithuania who was sent to Kovno Ghetto, a Jewish ghetto, and was later imprisoned at Dachau concentration camp, Flossenbürg...
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  • Rudolf Neugebauer (category Vilna Ghetto)
    Bruno Kittel to liquidate the Vilna Ghetto on 22–23 September 1943 and was then transferred to the Kovno Ghetto. At the end of 1944, he was seconded...
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    Shlomo Shafir (category Kovno Ghetto inmates)
    the underground Hebrew-language publication Nitzotz, circulated in the Kovno Ghetto and Dachau concentration camp; the Israeli Labor Party newspaper, Davar;...
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    Nazi Germany and its allies, as well as the administrative system of ghettoization and the hostility of various sections of the civilian population, few...
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    Kaufering concentration camp complex (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    in Kovno Ghetto and Dachau-Kaufering Concentration Camp. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press. ISBN 9780815651611. www.landsberg-kaufering-erinnern.de/en—a...
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    Cemach Feldstein (category Vilna Ghetto inmates)
    in Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania (1922-1940), where most of the subjects were taught in Modern Hebrew. After being deported to the Vilna Ghetto in 1941, Feldstein...
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  • Bruno Kittel (category Vilna Ghetto)
    liquidation of the Vilnius Ghetto, Kittel was posted to the newly formed Kovno concentration camp in the reorganized Kovno Ghetto as a liaison between the...
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    Einsatzkommando (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    Kripo. Soviet troops withdrew from the Lithuanian temporary capital Kaunas (Kovno) the day before, and the city was taken over by Lithuanians during the anti-Soviet...
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    until 1843 when the Zarasai County was transferred to the newly established Kovno Governorate. The city started to grow in 1873 when a branch of the Libau–Romny...
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    Jay M. Ipson (category Kovno Ghetto inmates)
    Holocaust Museum in Richmond, Virginia. Jacob Ipp was forced into the Kovno Ghetto, established by the occupying forces of Nazi-Germany, with his family...
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    Kaunas / Kovno Lithuanian Testimonies' Project Archived 2012-04-22 at the Wayback Machine Jewish children on the streets of the Kovno ghetto. Lithuania...
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    The Holocaust in Germany (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    deported to Łódź, Kovno, Riga, and Minsk, where most were not immediately executed. In late November, 5,000 German Jews were shot outside of Kovno and another...
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    The Holocaust in Poland was the ghettoization, robbery, deportation and mass murder of Jews, alongside other groups under similar racial pretexts in occupied...
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    Rumbula massacre (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    be deported to the Riga ghetto. Similarly motivated mass murders of eastern Jews confined to ghettos were carried out at Kovno on October 28, 1941 (10...
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  • survival in Birkenau. Marek Edelman, a leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, wrote The Ghetto Fights. Cordelia Edvardson wrote Burned Child Seeks the Fire...
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    Ukrainian militias remains open (i.e. collaborating for a joint assault in Kovno, Wilno, and Lwów). The murders continued uninterrupted. On 12 October 1941...
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    Stelmokas, who participated in the 1941 massacre of 9,000 Jews of the Kovno Ghetto. Malnik recorded a survivor testimony for the collection at the Alabama...
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    Jewish prisoners passed through its gates, mostly from the Vilna and Kovno Ghettos, but also from Latvia, Poland, Hungary and the Theresienstadt concentration...
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  • Leonid Smilovitsky, Goldenstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center, Université de Tel-Aviv. smilov@ zahav. net. il Shelter from the Holocaust: Rethinking Jewish...
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  • Erich Ehrlinger (category Kovno Ghetto)
    led the mass murder of Jews behind the front, in particular in the ghettos of Kovno, Dünaburg and Rositten. For example, on 16 July 1941, the SD entered...
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    Lithuanian partisans killed 7,800 Jews in Kovno between June 24, 1941, and July 6, 1941. Jaeger recorded 4,000 Jews in Kovno that were killed exclusively by Lithuanian...
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    Transport of Czech Jews to Baranavichy (category Theresienstadt Ghetto)
    had either 999 or 1,000 Jews transported by train from the Theresienstadt Ghetto and delivered to the city of Baranavichy, Reichskommissariat Ostland (now...
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  • Soviet POWs, most of them from nearby Vilnius, and its newly formed Vilna Ghetto. Lithuania became one of the first locations outside occupied Poland in...
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  • pretext of preventing rabies. From then on, ghetto Jews were forbidden to hold dogs. In the Kovno Ghetto, he dogs and cats were gathered in one of the...
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    The Holocaust in Latvia (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    addition, thousands of German and Austrian Jews were deported to the Riga Ghetto. The German army crossed the Soviet frontier in the early morning of Sunday...
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    relocated in August and September 1943 from the Kovno and Vilna Ghettos in Lithuania, and Salaspils Ghetto in Latvia. Smaller numbers of inmates were from...
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