By order of German authorities, Jews in the Kovno ghetto are boarded onto trucks during a deportation action, circa 1942–1943. This image was likely taken by Zvi Hirsch Kadushin (later known as George Kadish), a Jewish photographer who secretly took photos in the Kovno ghetto.
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