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The Kovno Ghetto Partisans & Chaim Yelin

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Post Card of Kovno/Kaunas (circa 1900)
Map with location of Kovno/Kaunas
Kovno (circa 1915)
Members of the Central Committee of the He - Chaluts Zionist movement in Kaunas (Kovno) in 1922
German forces attack Kovno
German soldiers move into Kovno
Lithuanians beat Jews to death with steel bars
The "Death Dealer" of Kovno Lietukis Garage
An announcement  warning against approaching too close to the ghetto fence.
Karl Jäger
Elchanan Elkes
The gate outside of the Kovno Ghetto
Jewish workers returning to the ghetto
Childrens school in the Kovno Ghetto
Jews at the Ninth Fort
Jewish women standby murdered corpses outside the Seventh Fort
Pie chart indicating  populations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by ethnic group
Dr. Franz Walter Stahlecker
Bodies of those murdered in Ponary
Shooting at the edge of a pit
Lithuanian militiamen in Kovno round up Jews In Kovno,  June 25-July 8, 1941
Jewish prisoner behind bars in Kovno
Lithuanian militia unit force a group of Jewish women  to undress before their execution in the Pajuoste Forest
A Jewish man hangs from a tree in Kovno
Civilians view the aftermath of a massacre
Lithuania militia guards Jews to be killed at Ponary
Corpses at  Rainiai
A map that accompanied a secret undated report on the mass murder of Jews by Einsatzgruppe A
Lithuanians and a Soviet officer stand among the remains of twenty Jewish atrocity victims, who were exhumed from a mass grave in the woods near Utena
Memorial at Ponary
Soviet soldiers view the ruins of the Kovno Ghetto
Ruins of the Kovno ghetto
Leaders of the resistance movement in Kovno,     (Chaim Yelin top left)
The German army attacks Kovno
Lithuanian Fascists march captured Jews with hands tied in Kovno
Bodies of Jews murdered by Germans & Lithuanians  in Kovno
Jews beaten to death by Lithuanians with iron bars in Kovno
Jews from Kovno moving into the ghetto
The sign forbids Jews swimming access
Jews move their possessions into the Kovno ghetto
Jews forced to live in the squalor of the Kovno ghetto
Jews returning from forced labor are searched at the ghetto entrance
Chaim Yelin
Partisans from the Kovno Ghetto
A member of the Kovno ghetto underground retrieves a weapons cache from inside a well
A sentry stands guard outside the SS HQ in Kovno
Jewish partisans group operating in the forests near Kovno
Meishe Rubinson, a member of Chaim Yellin's inner circle
Polowitchus Cleopas Juazos was arrested in 1944 for helping members of the Jewish underground
Ignac Shepetis helped members of the Jewish underground escape from the Kovno ghetto and join partisans in the Rudniki Forest
Lieb Sher
Israel Goldblatt - Partisan from Kovno
Three Jewish ghetto officials stand at one of the gates to the Kovno ghetto
Krikshtshiukaichio St in the Kovno ghetto
The public hanging of Nahum Meck (Mek) in the Kovno ghetto
The Kovno Ghetto Jewish Council during the war. Chairman Elkes is seated third from left
Deputy Police Chief Yehuda Zupovitz at his desk in the Kovno ghetto
Sign posted by the Jewish Council of the Kovno ghetto, dated January 24, 1944, warning ghetto residents against approaching too close to the ghetto fence
Eliezer Zilber, a Jewish partisan from the Kovno ghetto
Aharon Vilenchuk, in Lithuania, with his wife Ada and their daughter
Deba Debletow, a Jewish partisan from Vilna
Partisans based in the Rudniki forest
David Tepe
http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/revolt/images/David%20Teper.jpg
Avraham Panausow -Partisan
The Ninth Fort at Kovno
External view of the solitary confinement cells at the Ninth Fort in Kovno
One of the killing sites at the Ninth Fort in Kovno
Jews assembled to be murdered at the Ninth Fort
Polowitchus Cleopas Juazos- executed at the Ninth Fort for helping Jews escape from Kovno
Jewish partisans outside a makeshift hut in the Rudniki forest
Partisans beside a ziemlanka hut in the Rudniki forest
Aleksander Jatzowski - Partisan from Kovno
Gesia Glazar - Jewish Partisan
Remnant of a section of the inner courtyard of the Ninth Fort
Diagram showing the escape route of prisoners from the Ninth Fort
Zunia Shtrom -Jewish partisan from Kovno
David Levin poses in a hiding spot outside of Kovno
The Kovno ghetto in flames
Dr. Elchanan Elkes and his family prior to the war
Remains of the burned out ghetto in Kovno
Chaim Yelin with Moshe Moslis
Yehuda Eidelman
 -Jewish partisan from Kovno
Surviving Jews gathered outside the burnt remnants of the Kovno ghetto
Jerachmiel Berman -Jewish partisan from Kovno
Liuba  "Lieb" Sher
Meir Liberman -Jewish partisan "Death to the Invaders" battalion      -Kovno
Michael Pasternak - Jewish Partisan from Kovno
Moshe Sherman -Jewish partisan from Kovno
Sima Jasunski Fajtlson -Jewish partisan
Tzadok Bleiman Evyatar -Jewish partisan from Kovno
Jewish partisans outside the Ninth Fort after the liberation
Fort III destroyed by German forces in WW1
Kovno
Fort IX courtyard
Hundreds of Jews are gathered near the entrance to Fort VII
Jews gathered for Execution at Fort VII
Jewish women with bodies of executed men outside the VII Fort
Einsatz Action
EK 3 1941 Report on Executions of Jews from Vienna  in Fort IX
http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/einsatz/images/Jager%20Report%20on%20Executions%20in%20Fort%20IX%20EK%203%201941%20Executions%20of%20Jews%20from%20Vienna.jpg
Outside the walls of the Ninth Fort
Messages scrawled by Jewish prisoners on a wall inside Fort IX, shortly before their execution
…more scrawled messages
Jewish Police make one final assemble prior to their execution at IX Fort
Fort IV after Liberation
A Rabbi conducts a memorial service at Fort IX ten months after the liberation
Transport list of Jews from Vienna Sent to Kovno and murdered in Fort IX
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Peter Ginz
Kovno ghetto
1944
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