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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.
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
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 ...
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:
A high school student who vanished after leaving Nederland High School in Nederland, Colorado on April 15, 1975. Her body was discovered in Coal Creek Canyon on May 2. She had been bludgeoned with a large rock and strangled. Cooley's murder has been tentatively linked to Ted Bundy, although her murder remains an open case. [203]
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 ...