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Pictured here are Jewish policemen standing at roll call on the day of their execution in Fort IX in Kovno, Lithuania, March 27, 1944

 

For more background on the Jewish Police in Kovno click here:

How The Jewish Police in the Kovno Ghetto Saw Itself - Dov Levin

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