A young boy holding his younger brother in the Kovno ghetto. [LCID: 81172]
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Two young boys in the Kovno ghetto

A young boy holding his younger brother in the Kovno ghetto. Older children frequently cared for younger siblings in the ghetto. Photographed by George Kadish. Kovno, Lithuania, 1941.

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

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