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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.
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.
Men at workplaces were also seized. Jews were taken to Lukiškės Prison, then to Paneriai, also known as Ponary (or Ponar), where they were murdered between 1 September and 3 September. 5,000 to 10,000 people were murdered, [10] including ten members of the Judenrat. The objective was to clear an area for the establishment of a ghetto to ...
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
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 ...
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.
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A 2009 play, Our Class by Polish playwright Tadeusz Słobodzianek, dealing with a massacre of Jews by Poles in a small town during the Holocaust, was performed in London. [113] The play follows the lives of 10 Catholic and Jewish Polish students from the same class at school, beginning in 1925.