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  2. Ponary massacre - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Aukštieji Paneriai - Wikipedia

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    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. It is located on low forested hills, on the Vilnius-Warsaw road.

  4. Moshe Shalit - Wikipedia

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    Shalit was one of the victims of the Ponary massacre, [11] which took place eight kilometres southwest of Vilna. The bodies of 70,000 executed Jews were thrown into ditches in the forest of Ponar. [2] Shalit's wife Deborah and their youngest daughter Ita were killed several months later in Belorussia where they had fled.

  5. Category:Victims of the Ponary massacre - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Victims of the Ponary massacre" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.

  6. Kazimierz Sakowicz - Wikipedia

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    A witness to the prolonged Ponary massacre in German-occupied Vilnius, he chronicled much of it in his diary, before being murdered in 1944. His diary, which he buried in his garden and parts of which were recovered and reconstructed after the war, was published several decades after his death under the title Ponary Diary (first, in Polish in ...

  7. Rikle Glezer - Wikipedia

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    The forest of Ponar was the site of the Ponary massacre, one of the most notorious sites of Nazi mass murder, where thousands of men, women and children from Vilnius and the surrounding towns were shot and buried in mass graves.

  8. List of massacres in Poland - Wikipedia

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    Some 150 Jews managed to escape the massacre, however most were handed over to the Germans. Czarny Las massacre: 14–15 August 1941 Czarny Las near Stanisławów Nazi Germany: 250–300 Poles Misznowszyna Forest massacre 20–21 October 1941 Misznowszyna Forest near Horodyszcze Nazi Germany: 1,000+ Jews Rudzica Forest massacre autumn of 1941

  9. Vilna Ghetto - Wikipedia

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    The majority of the remaining residents were sent to the Vaivara concentration camp in Estonia, [23] killed in the forest of Paneriai, or sent to the death camps in German-occupied Poland. [citation needed] A small group of Jews remained in Vilna after the liquidation of the ghetto, primarily at the Kailis and HKP 562 forced labour camps. [22]