2025-01 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
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Large Mounted Photo, 14” x 11”, 1930, Kaunas Lithuania, showing profile images of 50 students and professors, with the names and titles in Yiddish. The mount is chipped affecting the photo slightly in two places. The Kaunas pogrom was a massacre of Jews living in Kaunas, Lithuania, that took place on June 25-29, 1941. There, several dozen Jewish men allegedly associates of NKVD, were publicly tortured and executed on June 27th in front of a crowd of Lithuanian men, women and children. The incident was documented by a German soldier who photographed the event as a man, nicknamed the "Death Dealer", beat each man to death with a metal bar. After June, systematic executions took place at various forts of the Kaunas Fortress, especially the Seventh and Ninth Fort.
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