Until The Last Jew... Until The Last Name

Two children wearing the Jewish badge in the Kovno Ghetto in Feb 1944
Jewish policemen standing at roll call on the day of their execution in the Ninth Fort in Kovno, Lithuania, March 27, 1944

Pictured here are two children wearing the Jewish badge in the Kovno Ghetto in Feb 1944. On March 27, 1944, the Germans mounted a Children’s Aktion, entering the ghetto when parents were at work and taking about 2,000 of the children and elderly to be killed. On the same day, the entire Jewish ghetto police force was taken to the Ninth Fort (see bottom photo) where 40 of the 130 policemen were shot. About 3,000 Kovno Jews survived the war.

For more background on the Jewish Police in Kovno:
How The Jewish Police in the Kovno Ghetto Saw Itself - Dov Levin

Pages of Testimony are for a child taken in the Children's Aktion and for 2 Jewish policemen taken in an Aktion, who were killed when they refused to divulge the hideout of the children in the ghetto. One of the Pages is in memory of Yehuda Zupovitz who was the deputy to the police chief in the ghetto.