What the records say
- When
- Jul 1941 – Aug 1944
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 100,000
- Coordinates
- 54.63° N, 25.16° E
- Description
- mass executions carried out by Germans and Lithuanians near Vilnius in 1941–1944
Ponary massacre
1941–1944 Nazi murders in Vilnius, Lithuania
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, during World War II and the Holocaust in the Generalbezirk Litauen of Reichskommissariat Ostland.
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