Summary
The city in Lithuania where Aharon Barak was born and, as a child of five, was put into a ghetto after the German occupation under Operation Barbarossa, in his autobiographical account in his separate opinion in South Africa v. Israel (Genocide Convention) (Separate opinion of Judge ad hoc Barak, Order of 26 January 2024, South Africa v. Israel, PDF p.1-2).
Details
- Barak records that within a few days of the occupation almost 30,000 Jews in Kaunas were taken from their homes and put into a ghetto, and that on 26 October 1941 around 9,000 Jews were taken from the central square, “Democracy Square”, and executed by machine gun fire (PDF p.1).
- He was smuggled out of the ghetto in a sack in 1944 after the “Kinder Aktion” and hid with his mother behind a double wall until liberation by the Red Army on 1 August 1944 (PDF p.2).
Related pages
Aharon Barak, Separate opinion of Judge ad hoc Barak, Order of 26 January 2024, South Africa v. Israel