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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.
The Ukrainian population was expelled from the captured villages in the area of Svynaryn forest and its surroundings. Ukrainian sources state that the division's soldiers committed atrocities in some Ukrainian villages, the greatest of which would be the crime in Ochniwka, where, according to Yaroslav Tsaruk ( Ukrainian : Ярослав ...
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The Katyn Forest Massacre: Hearings Parts 1-4 Parts 5-7 Before the Select Committee to Conduct an Investigation of the Facts, Evidence And Circumstances of the Katyn Forest Massacre, Eighty-second Congress, First-[second] Session, On Investigation of the Murder of Thousands of Polish Officers In the Katyn Forest Near Smolensk, Russia ...
The AB-Aktion (German: Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion, Polish: Akcja AB,lit. ' Extraordinary Operation of Pacification '), a second stage of the Nazi German campaign of violence in Poland during World War II, aimed to eliminate the intellectuals and the upper classes of the Second Polish Republic across the territories slated for eventual annexation by the German Reich.
Czarny Las massacre (Polish: Mord w Czarnym Lesie, English: Black Forest Massacre, Ukrainian: Різанина в Чорному Лісі) was a mass murder of around 250–300 ethnic Poles during World War II, carried out by the Gestapo on the orders of SS-Hauptsturmführer Hans Krueger (also spelled Krüger) in Czarny Las (Black Forest) near Stanisławów, the night of August 14/15, 1941.
The Arnsberg Forest massacre (also known as the Massacre in Arnsberg Woods) was a series of mass extrajudicial killings of 208 forced labourers and POWs [citation needed] (Ostarbeiter), mainly of Russian and Polish descent, [1] [2] by Nazi troops under the command of Hans Kammler [3] from 20 to 23 March 1945.