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Massacre in Fort IX
Map showing the environs of the Kovno ghetto, including the Ninth Fort massacre site. —US Holocaust Memorial Museum
October 29, 1941
German SS and police units and Lithuanian police auxiliaries murder 9,200 residents of the Jewish ghetto in Kovno (Kaunas; Kovne), Lithuania, in Fort IX on the edge of the city.
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