Lithuania Region
LITHUANIA REGION “The Main Gate” of the Kaunas ghetto; pen-and-ink drawing by survivor Esther Lurie, 1943. USHMM WS #73488, COURTESY OF SARA MILO Copyright © 2012. Indiana University Press. All rights reserved. Indiana University Copyright © 2012. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945 : Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe, edited by Martin Dean, and Geoffrey P. Megargee, Indiana University Press, 2012. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/vgtulibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3014863. Created from vgtulibrary-ebooks on 2018-12-08 03:09:47. 5528-41848_ch10_10P.indd28-41848_ch10_10P.indd 11031031 112/21/112/21/11 55:52:52 PPMM LITHUANIA REGION (GENERALKOMMISSARIAT LITAUEN) Pre- 1939: Lithuania and parts of Poland; 1940– 1941: Lithuanian SSR and parts of the Belorus sian SSR; 1941–1944: Generalkommissariat Litauen, including part of the initial territory of Generalkommissariat Weissruthenien (transferred on April 1, 1942), Reichskommissariat Ostland; post- 1991: Republic of Lithuania and part of Hrodna voblasts’, Republic of Belarus The German and local Lithuanian authorities established were residing in Lithuania on the eve of the German occupa- around 115 ghettos in Generalkommissariat Litauen. Of tion of the country in late June 1941. The Soviet deportation of these, 38 were established in what became under the German people from Lithuania in 1940– 1941 was blamed by many Lith- civil administration, Gebiet Schaulen- Land; 25 in Gebiet uanians on the Jews, even though a considerable proportion of Kauen-Land; and 22 in the area of Gebiet Ponewesch- Land, those deported were themselves Jewish. Following the German which was not formally split off from Gebiet Schaulen- Land invasion, more than 8,000 Jews managed to fl ee into the interior until November 1941.
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