During the Great Action, selected Jews from the ghetto are driven to the Ninth Fort of Kaunas to be executed (from E. Oshry’s book The Annihilation of Lithuanian Jewry, 1995).
„On one of the most tragic days in the history of the Kaunas Ghetto—March 27, 1944—a heinous Nazi crime was committed—the Children’s Action. On that day, children up to 12 years old were torn from their mothers’ arms and taken from the Kaunas Ghetto to Auschwitz. That same day, early in the morning, 140 Jewish policemen of the Kaunas Ghetto were arrested, all taken to the Ninth Fort, and 33 of them were killed. Among those who were killed and brutally tortured, yet did not betray the hiding places where children and the weapons of the ghetto resistance organization were concealed, were the deputy chief of the Jewish police, Juda (Jehuda) Zupavičius, and policeman Ika Grinberg.“
Kiemo Galerija 