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A pair of shoes left behind after a deportation action in the Kovno ghetto. [LCID: 81082]
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Shoes left behind after a deportation action in the Kovno ghetto

A pair of shoes left behind after a deportation action in the Kovno ghetto. Photographer George Kadish captioned the photo "The body is gone." Kovno, Lithuania, circa 1943.

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shoes deportations Kovno Lithuania documenting the Holocaust George Kadish
  • US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of George Kadish/Zvi Kadushin
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