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Place in Lithuania

What happened to the Jews in Kaunas

31 events, 1589 AD to 1993 AD

16th century

  1. 1589 AD Kovno merchants bar Troki Jews from trading and seize their wares · Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania

17th century

  1. 1601 AD Jews of Grodno and other towns lose Kovno shipping privilege · Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania
  2. 1682 AD Renewed ban on Jewish settlement in Kaunas · Kaunas, Lithuania

18th century

  1. 1753 AD Expulsion of Jews from municipal land in Kaunas · Kaunas, Lithuania
  2. 1753 AD Kovno Jews limited to residence in the Starochinska district · Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania
  3. 1761 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Kovno · Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania
  4. 1761 AD Riot in Kaunas · Kaunas, Lithuania
  5. 1783 AD King Stanislaus Augustus grants Kovno Jews the right of residence · Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania

19th century

  1. 1845–1858 AD Restrictions on Jewish settlement in Kaunas · Kaunas, Lithuania

20th century

  1. 1936 AD Jewish students excluded from Kaunas University medical faculty · Kaunas, Lithuania
  2. 1941 AD August 1941 roundup and killing of Jewish men · Kaunas, Lithuania
  3. 1941 AD Establishment of the Kaunas ghetto in Slobodka · Kaunas, Lithuania
  4. 1941 AD Further Aktionen in the Kaunas ghetto, August-December 1941 · Kaunas, Lithuania
  5. 1941 AD German SS and police units and Lithuanian police auxiliaries murder 9,200… · Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania
  6. 1941 AD Killings of Jews by Lithuanian Fascists before German arrival · Kaunas, Lithuania
  7. 1941 AD Kovno Ghetto · Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania
  8. 1941 AD Kovno Jews murdered at Ninth Fort; hospital set ablaze · Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania
  9. 1941 AD Lithuanian militiamen murder 2,000 Jews at the Seventh Fort · Kaunas, Lithuania
  10. 1941 AD Lithuanian police beat hundreds of Kovno Jews to death · Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania
  11. 1941 AD Massacre of 15,000 Jews in Kovno · Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania
  12. 1941 AD Ninth Fort Aktion of October 29, 1941 · Kaunas, Lithuania
  13. 1941 AD Pogrom in Kovno kills about 3,800 Jews · Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania
  14. 1941 AD Slobodka pogrom · Kaunas (Slobodka), Lithuania
  15. 1941 AD Thousands of Kovno Jews executed at a synagogue · Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania
  16. 1942 AD Resettlement actions transferring Kaunas Jews to Riga · Kaunas, Lithuania
  17. 1943 AD Deportation to Estonia and conversion of ghetto into concentration camp · Kaunas, Lithuania
  18. 1943 AD German authorities deport around 2,700 Jews from Kovno (Kaunas) to the labor… · Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania
  19. 1944 AD Kovno ghetto evacuated · Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania
  20. 1944 AD March 1944 Aktion against children, elderly and sick · Kaunas, Lithuania
  21. 1963 AD Jewish cemetery plowed up in Kaunas · Kaunas, Lithuania
  22. 1993 AD Desecration of Jewish cemeteries in Vilnius and Kaunas · Vilnius, Lithuania

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