Lithuania

In the autumn of 1943, all Jews who were unable to work, including the elderly and children, were exterminated in Vilnius, Kaunas and Šiauliai. The Kaunas and Šiauliai ghettos were converted into concentration camps. Most of the surviving prisoners of the Vilnius ghetto were deported to concentration camps in Latvia (Kaiserwald/Salaspils) and Estonia (Klooga, Vaivara, etc.). Thus, from February 1942 to the winter of 1943, approximately 25,000 Jews were killed in Lithuania. In the winter of 1943/44, more than 10,000 Lithuanian Jews were exterminated in Latvia, Estonia, and Germany.