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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 ...
The Great Synagogue, officially, the Great City Synagogue in Vilna, also the Great Synagogue of Vilnius, is a former Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located atI-2 Jewish Street in the Old Town of Vilnius, in the Vilnius County of Lithuania. Designed in the Renaissance and Baroque styles, the stone building was completed in 1633 and ...
The origin of the Jews of Lithuania has been a subject of much speculation. The first reliable document attesting the presence of Jews in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania is the charter of 1388 granting privileges to the Jews in Trakai. [2] The gathering together of the scattered Jewish settlers in sufficient numbers and with enough power to form ...
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The city of Vilnius, the capital and largest city of Lithuania, has an extensive history starting from the Stone Age. The city has changed hands many times between Imperial and Soviet Russia, Napoleonic France, Imperial and Nazi Germany, Interwar Poland, and Lithuania. Initially a Baltic settlement, Vilnius became a significant city under the ...
The Jewish Lithuanian population before World War II numbered around 160,000, or about 7% of the total population. [9] At the beginning of the war, some 12,000 Jewish refugees fled into Lithuania from Poland; [10] by 1941 the Jewish population of Lithuania had increased to approximately 250,000, or 10% of the total population. [9]