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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.
Gdańsk massacre: 13 November 1308 Gdańsk: Teutonic Knights: 60–1,000 Polish civilians Gołańcz massacre 3 May 1656 Gołańcz Swedish Empire: 25+ Poles Remains of 22 adults (incl. six women) and three children were discovered during an archaeological survey in 2014. [1] Kościan massacre of 1656 10 October 1656 Kościan Swedish Empire
Agnieszka (known by her friends as Gusia) was born on 7 September 1919 in Lusowo, Poland.Her father was Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki (1867–1937), a well-known Polish military general; her mother died when she was a very young child.
For articles on the topic of mass murder or massacres of women and/or girls, killed because of their gender. Note: This category should not be used for massacres where the majority of victims were women and/or girls unless sources demonstrate that women and/or girls were specifically targeted to be killed because of their gender.
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 Kaunas massacre of October 29, 1941, also known as the Great Action, was the largest mass murder of Lithuanian Jews. [1]By the order of SS-Standartenführer Karl Jäger and SS-Rottenführer Helmut Rauca, the Sonderkommando under the leadership of SS-Obersturmführer Joachim Hamann, and 8 to 10 men from Einsatzkommando 3, murdered 2,007 Jewish men, 2,920 women, and 4,273 children [2] in a ...
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 ...