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Kaunas, Lithuania
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Linkuvos g. 91, Kaunas 48311, Lithuania
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N54° 54' 57" E23° 53' 18"
(54.915833333333, 23.888333333333)
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The Kovno ghetto was a ghetto established by Nazi Germany to hold the Lithuanian Jews of Kaunas during the Holocaust. At its peak, the Ghetto held 29,000 people, most of whom were later sent to concentration and extermination camps, or were shot at the Ninth Fort. About 500 Jews escaped from work details and directly from the Ghetto, and joined Soviet partisan forces in the distant forests of southeast Lithuania and Belarus.
