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Of approximately 208,000–210,000 Jews at the time of the Nazi invasion, an estimated 190,000 to 195,000 were killed before the end of World War II, most of them between June and December 1941. More than 95% of Lithuania's Jewish population was murdered over the three-year German occupation, [ 1 ] a more complete destruction than befell any ...
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.
Name Date Location Deaths Notes First Mass Execution of the Jews of Gargždai: June 24, 1941 Gargždai: 201 The mass execution of Jewish men from Gargždai was the first of more than 250 mass execution of Jews committed by the Nazis and their Lithuanian collaborators during the Holocaust in Lithuania [1] [2]
Lithuanian civilians and German soldiers watching the massacre of 68 Jews in the Lietūkis garage of Kaunas on 25 or 27 June 1941. The Kaunas pogrom was a massacre of Jews living in Kaunas, Lithuania, that took place on 25–29 June 1941; the first days of Operation Barbarossa and the Nazi occupation of Lithuania.
Lithuania shows 136,421 deaths. Lithuanian collaborators (with white armbands) arresting the Jews in July 1941. Before the Holocaust, Lithuania was home to about 210,000 [24] or 250,000 [25] Jews and was one of the greatest centers of Jewish theology, philosophy, and learning which preceded even the times of the Gaon of Vilna.
During World War II, 91–95% of Lithuania's Jewish population were killed – almost all the Jews who had not managed to leave Lithuania and its environs. This was the highest casualty rate of Jews in any nation in the Holocaust .
Lithuanians accused 60 young Jewish men of being a rear guard for the Red Army; shortly after the town's capture, German forces killed these men. On 13 or 15 July Lithuanian nationalists transported the Jews to ditches near the village of Kausenai where they were shot. Of the 1,700 [1]-1,800 [4] remaining Jews of Plungė, only a few survived. [1]
Lithuanian Jews who died in the Holocaust (1941-1945). Pages in category "Lithuanian Jews who died in the Holocaust" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.