Scene photographed by George Kadish: Jewish prisoners behind a barred window in the Kovno ghetto jail. [LCID: 81155]
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Kovno ghetto jail

Scene photographed by George Kadish: Jewish prisoners behind a barred window in the Kovno ghetto jail. The Jewish council administered its own jail in the ghetto. Kovno, Lithuania, 1943.

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