April 1943 In April 1943 the German security police and SD chief in Lithuania informed the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Security Main Office in Berlin) that at that time there were 44,584 Jews left in the Lithuanian general district: 23,950 in the Vilnius Ghetto, 15,875 in the Kaunas Ghetto, and 4,759 in the Šiauliai Ghetto. Around 30,000 Jews were doing jobs for the German army.