HKP 562 was the site of a Nazi forced labor camp for Jews in Vilnius, Lithuania, during the Holocaust. It was centered around 47 & 49 Subačiaus Street...

ghetto was slated for liquidation in September 1943, he set up the HKP 562 forced labor camp, where he saved many male Jews by issuing them official work permits...

Kailis and HKP 562 forced labor camps and two other small groups remained in the city. The population of Kailis swelled up. Many Jews used the camp as a temporary...

former ghetto Holocaust memorial, Subačiaus Street, near site of HKP 562 forced-labor camp Samuel Bak (1933-), artist who lived in the ghetto as a child...

inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp were formed into Leichenkommando ("corpse units"). The workers were forced to dig up bodies, pile them on wood...

Ghetto Vilna Ghetto Concentration camps Geruliai HKP 562 forced labor camp Kailis forced labor camp Kauen concentration camp Seventh Fort Massacres Geruliai...

initiatives, including raising a Waffen-SS unit or providing men for forced labor in Germany.[citation needed] Before the Holocaust, Lithuania was home...

by obtaining permits to work in Karl Plagge's hastily expanded HKP 562 forced labor camp on Subačiaus Street in Vilnius. HKP562 served a few workshops...

In late 1943, Germans arrested a couple that escaped from the HKP 562 forced labor camp. Kittel organized a public hanging of the couple and their daughter...

" By the end of the day on October 28, Rauca and his collaborators had forced 9,200 Jewish men, women, and children into the former small ghetto, or about...