Kauen concentration camp
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How to send mail, money, and visit Kauen concentration camp
Step-by-step guidance using the Lithuania system — addresses, money services, visit booking, what to bring on your first visit.
Operational period: 1943–1944.
Background
Kauen (German: Konzentrationslager (KZ) Kauen, Lithuanian: Kauno koncentracijos stovykla) was a Nazi Germany concentration camp located in the former Kovno Ghetto, modern day Lithuania. It operated from 15 September 1943 to 14 July 1944 and had seventeen satellite camps located around the city of Kaunas, in modern-day Lithuania. Most prisoners were Jews who had survived the previous years of the Holocaust in Lithuania. In July 1944, eight of the subcamps were closed. The main camp was liberated by the Red Army on 1 August 1944.
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Capacity
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1943
Closed 1944
Figures from official sources · verified 16 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Operator
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Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1943
Region
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Security level
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Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Notable inmates
- Fritz Aron Wallach1889–1944
- Werner Stein1899–1944
- Erwin Pels1927–1945
- Moisei Kopelman1895–1945
Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
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Data completeness
28%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- EHRI Authority Record
- Wikidata entity
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- EHRI Authority List of Camps and Ghettos / USHMM Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos — European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) / United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)
- Wikidata (Q18669828)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Kauen concentration camp. Retrieved October 15, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/kauen-concentration-camp
"Kauen concentration camp." World Prisons. Accessed October 15, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/kauen-concentration-camp.
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