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The Ponary massacre (Polish: zbrodnia w Ponarach), or the Paneriai massacre (Lithuanian: Panerių žudynės), was the mass murder of up to 100,000 people, mostly Jews, Poles, and Russians, by German SD and SS and the Lithuanian Ypatingasis būrys killing squads, [3] [4] [5] during World War II and the Holocaust in the Generalbezirk Litauen of Reichskommissariat Ostland.
Pit used to burn corpses that were exhumed to destroy evidence of mass executions. Aukštieji Paneriai ( literally Lithuanian : "a place near Neris " ; adapted to Polish : Ponary , Yiddish : פאנאר /Ponar) is a neighborhood of Vilnius , situated about 10 kilometres away from the city center.
bodies in a killing pit in Zlotsov, Ukraine, around 1941 Killing pit at Ponary. Killing pit (in German: Tötungsgrube) is a method of mass murder carried out by the Nazi forces of Germany, predominantly used during the initial phase of World War II in Eastern Europe, particularly in areas occupied by the Nazis in the Soviet territories (including eastern Poland, the Baltic states and eastern ...
Memorial to Murdered Jews of Lithuania (w/ photos of the memorial) Atamukas, Solomonas. (2001), The hard long road toward the truth: on the sixtieth anniversary of the holocaust in Lithuania. Archived 2020-07-27 at the Wayback Machine in Lithuanus/Lithuanian Quarterly Journal of Arts and Sciences, vol. 47, 4. Kulikauskas, Andrius.
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
The girl’s burial in the entry gate’s pit is also significant, according to researchers. A similar burial — a woman buried face down in a settlement’s boundary ditch — dating to the late ...
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The Kaunas massacre of October 29, 1941, also known as the Great Action, was the largest mass murder of Lithuanian Jews. [1]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, murdered 2,007 Jewish men, 2,920 women, and 4,273 children [2] in a ...