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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.
Map of Vilna Ghetto (small ghetto, in olive-green) In order to pacify the predominantly poorer Jewish quarter in the Vilnius Old Town and force the rest of the more affluent Jewish residents into the new German-envisioned ghetto, the Nazis staged – as a pretext – the Great Provocation incident on 31 August 1941, led by SS Einsatzkommando 9 Oberscharführer Horst Schweinberger under orders ...
Massacre of Serb civilians, mainly children, by Ustaše the under the command of Ante Moškova. Most of the victims were slaughtered at the Latićki forest. [133] Krstinja massacre April 1942 Krstinja: 759 Ustaše: Massacre of Serb civilians, mainly children, women and the elderly. [48] Kolarić massacre: 17 April 1942 Kolarić, near Vojnić ...
The most notorious Lithuanian unit participating in the Holocaust was the Ypatingasis būrys (a subdivision of German SD) from the Vilnius (Vilna, Wilno) area which [citation needed] killed tens of thousands of Jews, Poles and others in the Ponary massacre. [18] [22] [20] Another Lithuanian organization involved in the Holocaust was the ...
Katyn massacre: April–May 1940 Katyn, Tver: 10,702 Polish military officers and intelligentsia POWs 10,702 of the 22,000 victims of the Soviet-perpetrated massacre were murdered in Tver and Katyn. [2] Medvedev Forest massacre: 11 September 1941 Medvedev Forest, near Oryol: 157 Soviet massacre of political prisoners Rostov-on-Dov massacre 1942 ...
1776 (1972) – historical musical drama film depicting a fictionalized account of the events leading up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence [72]; Aguirre, the Wrath of God (German: Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes) (1972) – West German-Mexican-Peruvian epic historical drama film about Spanish soldier Lope de Aguirre, who lead a group of conquistadores down the Amazon River in South ...
Fearful of being surrounded by UPA units, the division began fighting them. From 11 January to 18 March 1944, the division fought sixteen major clashes with the Ukrainians, coming out mostly successful. [119] The Ukrainian population was expelled from the captured villages in the area of Svynaryn forest and its surroundings
Śladów massacre: 18 September 1939 Śladów Nazi Germany: around 300 Poles, including POWs and refugees including women and children [35] Mogilno massacre: 18 September 1939 Mogilno: Mogilno Germans minority 40 Polish (1 Jewish descent) Błonie massacre 18 September 1939 Błonie Nazi Germany: 50 Jews and Poles Gąbin massacre 19–21 ...