Mass grave at theNinth Fort, where many prisoners were executed, photograph also by Kadish
Commemorative plaque at the Ninth Fort
Kauen (German:Konzentrationslager (KZ) Kauen,Lithuanian:Kauno koncentracijos stovykla) was aNazi Germanyconcentration camp located in the formerKovno Ghetto, modern dayLithuania. It operated from 15 September 1943 to 14 July 1944 and hadseventeen satellite camps located around the city ofKaunas, in modern-day Lithuania. Most prisoners were Jews who had survived the previous years ofthe Holocaust in Lithuania. In July 1944, eight of the subcamps were closed. The main camp was liberated by the Red Army on 1 August 1944.[1]
Evelyn Zegenhagen, Charles-Claude Biedermann: Early Camps, Youth Camps, and Concentration Camps and Subcamps under the SS-Business Administration Main Office (WVHA) . Encyclopedia. In: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (ed.):Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, USA 2009,ISBN978-0-253-35328-3, "Kauen" pp. 848–852
Riga-Kaiserwald, Warschau, Vaivara, Kauen (Kaunas), Płaszów, Kulmhof. (tr. "Riga Imperial Forest, Warsaw, Vaivara, Kaunas (Kaunas), Płaszów, Kulmhof") In: Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel (Hrsg.):Der Ort des Terrors. (tr. "The place of terror") vol. 8, "Kaunas". C. H. Beck, Munich 2005,ISBN978-3-406-57237-1, p. 209–232
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