Kaunas Ghetto Cemetery in Kaunas, Kaunas

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Get directions Kaunas, Kaunas, Lithuania

Coordinates: 54.91330, 23.90610
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The Kaunas Ghetto was established by the Nazi occupation government in July 1941. It occupied the half hectare (1.5 acres) bounded by the Neris River on the east and Veliuonos, Paneriu and Demokratu Streets on the south, west and north, respectively. For the first 5 months of its existence, it served as a way station for Jewish prisoners on their way to execution and mass burial 2 miles away at the Ninth Fort. Memorials for the tens of thousands who perished during this phase are located at the Ninth Fort. From December 1941 onward, the Kaunas Ghetto served as a forced labor camp, giving rise to the need for a nearby burial place for the many slave laborers who died. This cemetery in the Findagrave system is intended for memorials for these persons. A partial list of 800 burials in this place was compiled by Sylvia Nusinov and maintained online at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Lithuania/KovnoCem.htm under the title "Kovno Cemetery Database 1941-1943". In 1978, all human remains were exhumed and relocated to a special section of the Aleksotas Jewish Cemetery in the south part of Kaunas. The former Kaunas Ghetto contains no human remains today, only a simple monument marking where a cemetery once existed.