Archive/File: holocaust/ussr/kovno kovno.001 Last-Modified: 1995/01/11 "In Kovno, since the first days of the German occupation at the end of June [1941], hundreds of Jews had continued to be taken to the Jewish cemetery and shot. Other Jews were seized in the streets, were dragged to a garage, where hoses 'were put into their mouths and opened', with the horrendous result that 'the Jews would burst'.<30> On July 4 Lithuanian militiamen, on German instructions, murdered 416 Jewish men and 47 Jewish women in Kovno's Seventh Fort; two days later, again on German instructions, a further 2,514 Jews were murdered in the fort, the figures precisely recorded by the commander of SS Einsatzkommando 3 in his report submitted to Berlin at the end of the year.<31>" (Gilbert, 168) <30> Testimony of Dr. Aharon Peretz: Eichmann Trial, 4 May 1962, session 28. <31> 'Recapitulation of Executions Carried Out in the Area of Strike Commando 3 until 1 December 1941': Raul Hilberg (editor), Documents of Destruction, Germany and Jewry 1933-1945, London 1972, page 47. Work Cited Gilbert, Martin. The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe during the Second World War. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1985
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