Ponary massacre
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The Ponary massacre, or the Paneriai massacre, 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, d
One of six Ponary murder pits in which victims were shot (July 1941). Note the ramp leading down and the group of men forced to wear hoods.
Pit used to burn corpses that were exhumed to destroy evidence of mass murders.
Memorial for Jewish victims.
Memorial for Polish victims.
Vilna Ghetto
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The Vilna Ghetto was a World War II Jewish ghetto established and operated by Nazi Germany in the city of Vilnius in the modern country of Lithuania, at the time part of the Nazi-administered Reichsko
Ponary massacre
…Lithuania. 70,000 Jews were murdered at Ponary, along with up to 2,000 Poles, 8,000 Soviet POWs, most of them from nearby Vilnius, and its newly formed Vilna Ghetto. Lithuania became one of the first locations outside occupied Poland in World War II where the Nazis mass-murdered Jews as part of the Final Solution…
Vilna Ghetto (Julian Klaczko Street), 1941
Lithuanian Nazi policeman with Jewish prisoners, July 1941
A monument in memory of the Jews of Vilnius who were murdered in the Holocaust. In Kiryat Shaul cemetery in Tel Aviv
Straszuna Street (the Polish name), now Žemaitijos Street, in the former ghetto