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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.
Kaunas massacre: October 29, 1941 Kaunas: 9,200 Koniuchy massacre: January 29, 1944 Koniuchy (now Kaniūkai) 34 Ponary (Paneriai) massacre: July 1941 - August 1944 Paneriai, Vilnius: 100,000 Pirčiupiai massacre: 3 June 1944 Dzūkija: 119 Glinciszki massacre: 20 June 1944 Glitiškės: 27 Dubingiai massacre: 23 June 1944 Dubingiai: 20-27 ...
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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
A notable massacre began on the night of 25–26 June, when Algirdas Klimaitis ordered his 800 [citation needed] Lithuanian troops to begin the Kaunas pogrom. Franz Walter Stahlecker, the SS commanding officer of Einsatzgruppe A, told Berlin that by 28 June 1941 3,800 people had been killed in Kaunas and a further 1,200 in the surrounding towns.
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