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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.
Pit used to burn corpses that were exhumed to destroy evidence of mass executions. 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.
Memorial to Murdered Jews of Lithuania (w/ photos of the memorial) Atamukas, Solomonas. (2001), The hard long road toward the truth: on the sixtieth anniversary of the holocaust in Lithuania. Archived 2020-07-27 at the Wayback Machine in Lithuanus/Lithuanian Quarterly Journal of Arts and Sciences, vol. 47, 4. Kulikauskas, Andrius.
bodies in a killing pit in Zlotsov, Ukraine, around 1941 Killing pit at Ponary. Killing pit (in German: Tötungsgrube) is a method of mass murder carried out by the Nazi forces of Germany, predominantly used during the initial phase of World War II in Eastern Europe, particularly in areas occupied by the Nazis in the Soviet territories (including eastern Poland and the Baltic states). [1]
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"As of today (Monday), we have found a total of 25 clandestine graves, 31 bodies found, 29 of them male and two female," said Jorge Luis Llaven, the state prosecutor of Chiapas in a statement.
Between 1997 and 2003 a highly complex burial was excavated, called the ‘Death Pit’. This pit was more than 3m in diameter and about 1.5m deep, filled with layers of dis-articulated human and animal bones, broken pottery and other artifacts. The ceremonies that produce this feature probably took place over a few weeks and had several phases.
The rate at which troops were hospitalized for mental illnesses has risen 87 percent since 2000, according to a July 2013 study by the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center. The center also reported in June of last year that mental complaints, not physical injury, were the leading cause of medical evacuations from the battlefields of Iraq and ...