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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.
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 ...
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 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 ...
The Beslan school siege, also referred to as the Beslan school hostage crisis or the Beslan massacre, [2] [3] [4] was an Islamic terrorist attack that started on 1 September 2004. It lasted three days, and involved the imprisonment of more than 1,100 people as hostages, including 777 children, [ 5 ] ending with the deaths of 334 people, 186 of ...
Medvedev Forest massacre: 1941, September 11 Medvedev Forest, near Oryol: 157 Soviet massacre of political prisoners 1941 Odessa massacre: 1941, October 22-24 Odessa: 34,000–100,000 Romanian and German troops, supported by local authorities, massacred Jews in Odesa and the surrounding towns in Transnistria: Petrushino Massacres
Polish women led to mass execution in a forest near Palmiry 52°20′N 20°44′E / 52.33°N 20.74°E / 52.33; 20.74 The Palmiry massacre was a series of mass executions carried out by Nazi German forces, during World War II , near the village of Palmiry in the Kampinos Forest northwest of Warsaw
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 ...