historical context
1944 03 27/28
27-28 March 1944
A cruel Children’s Action took place in the Kaunas Ghetto. It was supervised by the head of the Lithuanian concentration camps SS-Obersturmbannführer Wilhelm Göcke, Oberführer Wilhelm Fuchs and Oberscharführer Bruno Kittel. SS officers and Ukrainian policemen raided the ghetto and searched the houses taking children from their mothers and putting them on buses. Women who tried to resist were beaten with rifle stocks and hounded. About 1,700 children and old people were taken from the ghetto in two days and transported to Auschwitz for annihilation. 130 ghetto policemen were also arrested. The next day 34 Jewish policemen were shot and killed in the 9th Fort.
A cruel Children’s Action took place in the Kaunas Ghetto. It was supervised by the head of the Lithuanian concentration camps SS-Obersturmbannführer Wilhelm Göcke, Oberführer Wilhelm Fuchs and Oberscharführer Bruno Kittel. SS officers and Ukrainian policemen raided the ghetto and searched the houses taking children from their mothers and putting them on buses. Women who tried to resist were beaten with rifle stocks and hounded. About 1,700 children and old people were taken from the ghetto in two days and transported to Auschwitz for annihilation. 130 ghetto policemen were also arrested. The next day 34 Jewish policemen were shot and killed in the 9th Fort.