Ponary massacre

The Ponary massacre (Polish: zbrodnia w Ponarach) was the mass murder of up to 100,000 people by German SD, SS and Lithuanian Nazi collaborators,^[2][3][4] such as the Ypatingasis būrys units,^[1][2][5] during World War II and the Holocaust in Reichskommissariat Ostland. The murders took place between July 1941 and August 1944 near the railway station of Ponary, now known as Paneriai, a suburb of what is today Vilnius, Lithuania. Some 70,000 Jews were murdered in Ponary,^[6] along with between 2,000 and 20,000 Poles^[7] and 8,000 Russian POWs, many from nearby Vilnius.^[3][8] Lithuania and the Baltic States became the first place outside occupied Poland where the Nazis would mass murder Jews as part of the Final Solution.^[9] Out of 70,000 Jews living in Vilnius, only 7,000 (10%) survived the war.^[10]

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponary massacre