Crowd views the aftermath of a massacre at Lietukis Garage, where pro-German Lithuanian nationalists killed more than 50 Jewish men. The victims were beaten, hosed, and then murdered with iron bars. Kovno, Lithuania, June 27, 1941.
Item View![The Rudnicki Street entrance to the Vilna ghetto.1941–1942. [LCID: 76836]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/0ce009ba-0620-4d04-9517-326e018b25af.jpg "The Rudnicki Street entrance to the Vilna ghetto.1941–1942. [LCID: 76836]")
This photograph shows the Rudnicki Street entrance to the Vilna ghetto. The signs on the fence claim there is danger of contagion and prohibit the bringing of food or wood into the ghetto. Photograph taken in 1941–42.
Item View![Deportation of Jews from the Kovno ghetto. Lithuania, 1942. [LCID: 81079]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/e3314050-0d26-44c7-be6a-9b7e53ba7540.jpg "Deportation of Jews from the Kovno ghetto. Lithuania, 1942. [LCID: 81079]")
Deportation of Jews from the Kovno ghetto to a work camp. Lithuania, 1942.
Item View![Clandestine photograph taken by George Kadish: scene during the deportation of Jews from the Kovno ghetto. [LCID: 81088]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/dad1d917-30eb-4482-b688-f2dd5786cb0d.jpg "Clandestine photograph taken by George Kadish: scene during the deportation of Jews from the Kovno ghetto. [LCID: 81088]")
This clandestine photograph taken by George Kadish captures a scene during the deportation of Jews from the Kovno ghetto in German-occupied Lithuania in 1942.
Item View![Lithuanian collaborators guard Jews before their execution. [LCID: 60254e]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/fdbcd297-a931-4152-98fc-dd215b554962.jpg "Lithuanian collaborators guard Jews before their execution. [LCID: 60254e]")
Lithuanian collaborators guard Jews before their execution. Ponary, Lithuania, June–July, 1941.
Item View![Lithuanian militiamen in Kovno round up Jews during an early pogrom. [LCID: 77608]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/aa7388c3-5601-46f5-a5bb-231da8382674.jpg "Lithuanian militiamen in Kovno round up Jews during an early pogrom. [LCID: 77608]")
Lithuanian militiamen in Kovno round up Jewish women. Kovno, Lithuania, June-July, 1941.
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