![Jewish men, women, and children boarding trucks during deportations from the Kovno ghetto. [LCID: 81087]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/382a542a-bed7-45fd-a0ff-62a4754fd014.jpg)
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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