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The
“great Aktion” in Kovno took place on October 28, 1941.
The Jews of the ghetto were assembled in Democrats Square, SS Master
Sergeant Helmut Raucke separated those fit for labor from the
others. Workers were referred to the left, and non-workers—more
than 9,000 men, women, and children—to the right. At dusk, when
the sorting was completed, everyone on the right was sent to the
“small ghetto”; those to the left were allowed to return to
their homes. The next morning, the Jews who had been gathered in the
“small ghetto” were marched to the Ninth Fort, where they were
murdered by gunfire that toppled them into large pits prepared by
Russian prisoners of war. |
