Kauen concentration camp
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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
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
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Contact & address
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Conditions Risk Score
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Data completeness
16%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
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