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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.
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.
The # symbol indicates the massacre's ranking by number of deaths (since this list is sorted by death toll, not by date or by number of overall casualties). The W column gives a basic description of the weapons used: F – Firearms and other ranged weapons.
For decades, many have told stories about an escape tunnel that was dug by hand at Ponar, Lithuania, aHolocaust mass burial site. Recently, researchers working as part of an upcoming NOVA ...
Rhonda Renee Johnson and Sharon Lynn Shaw were two teenage girls who disappeared in Harris County, Texas, on the afternoon of August 4, 1971. In early 1972, skeletal remains of both girls were discovered in and around Clear Lake near Galveston Bay. A local man, Michael Lloyd Self, was charged with their murders in 1972 and convicted of Shaw's ...
Mentally ill woman shot eight-year-old boy at elementary school and then committed suicide [21] Jeffrey and Jill Erickson: Chicago: 4: Bank robber killed a marshall and a police detective, then committed suicide [22] [23] Michael Alfonso: 1992, 2001: 2: Committed two murders, listed on FBI's Ten Most Wanted list: Brown's Chicken massacre ...
Oak Park, Illinois, United States: 4 0 4: CCTV 2024 Chicago train shooting: A man fatally shot four homeless people as they slept on a Chicago Transit Authority train. He fled the scene but was later apprehended. The shooting was captured by surveillance cameras on the trains. [233] October 1, 2024 Tel Aviv, Israel: 9 [note 2] 17 24: CCTV
Pottawatomie massacre: 1856 May 24–25 Franklin County: Kansas: 5 John Brown and followers killed 5 pro-slavery settlers during the Bleeding Kansas period. [9] [10] Spirit Lake Massacre: 1857 Mar 5–12 West Okoboji: Iowa: 35–40 A band of Dakota people led by Inkpaduta conducted a series of raids on white settlers. Mountain Meadows Massacre ...