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Pictured
here are two children wearing the Jewish badge in the Kovno
Ghetto in Feb 1944. On March 27, 1944, the Germans mounted a
Children’s Aktion, entering the ghetto when parents were
at work and taking about 2,000 of the children and elderly to be
killed. On the same day, the entire Jewish ghetto police force
was taken to the Ninth Fort (see photo below) where 40 of the
130 policemen were shot. About 3,000 Kovno Jews survived the war
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Pages of
Testimony for child taken in the Children's Aktion
and for 2 Jewish policemen taken in an Aktion, who
were killed when they refused to divulge the hideout of the
children in the ghetto. One of the Pages is in memory of
Yehuda Zupovitz who was the deputy to the police chief in
the ghetto. |
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