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Kaunas massacre of October 29, 1941 was the largest mass murder of Lithuanian Jews in a day, and the largest massacre of children in the history of Europe.
By the order of SS-Standartenführer Karl Jäger and SS-Rottenführer Helmut Rauca, the Sonderkommando under the leadership of SS-Obersturmführer Joachim Hamann, and 8 to 10 men from Einsatzkommando 3, in collaboration with Lithuanian partisans, murdered 2,007 Jewish men, 2, 920 women, and 4,273 children in a single day at the Ninth Fort, Kaunas, Lithuania.
The Germans and Lithuanians destroyed the small ghetto on October 4, 1941, and killed almost all of its inhabitants at the Ninth Fort. Later that same month, on October 28, 1941, in an operation that becomes known as the "Great Action," SS-Rottenführer Helmut Rauca of the Kaunas Gestapo (secret state police) conducted the selection in the Kaunas Ghetto. All ghetto inhabitants are forced to assemble in a central square of the ghetto. Rauca selected 9,200 Jewish men, women, and children, about one-third of the ghetto population. The next day, October 29, they shot these people at the Ninth Fort. This was the largest of the mass killings in one day in Lithuania.