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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 and the Baltic states). [1]
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 ...
In Kosovo, a state-owned energy company plans to destroy a village to make way for expanded coal mining as the government and the World Bank plan for a proposed coal-burning power plant. The government has already forced roughly 1,000 residents from their homes. Many former residents claim officials violated World Bank policy requiring borrowers to restore their living conditions at equal or ...
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‘That is the death’: Mark Cuban says ultra-rich Americans get lured into money pits like clothing companies and music labels — here’s his investment advice for steady gains Vishesh Raisinghani
Celebrities and athletes who make it big usually want to convert their fame into fortune. However, billionaire investor Mark Cuban believes successful people tend to make mistakes with their earnings.