Kailis forced labor camp

Kailis forced labor camp
Former building of the camp in 2001
Location of Kailis forced labor camp within Lithuania
Location	Ševčenkos street 16, Vilnius, Lithuania 54°40′35″N 25°15′59″E / 54.67639°N 25.26639°E / 54.67639; 25.26639
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.