Kailis forced labor camp | |
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Location | Ševčenkos street 16, Vilnius, Lithuania 54°40′35″N 25°15′59″E / 54.67639°N 25.26639°E |
Date | 5 October 1941 to 3 July 1944 |
Incident type | Forced labor, imprisonment, mass shootings |
Organizations | Nazi SS |
Ghetto | Vilna Ghetto |
Victims | About 1,000 Jews |
Kailis forced labor camp (kailis is Lithuanian for fur) was a Nazi labor camp for Jews in Vilnius (pre-war Second Polish Republic, post-war Lithuanian SSR) during World War II. It was based on a pre-war fur and leather factory and mostly produced winter clothing for the German military. At its peak, after the liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto in September 1943, the camp housed about 1,500 Jews. The camp was liquidated and its workers executed at Ponary on 3 July 1944, just ten days before Red Army captured the city.