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	rubber hose: paneriai
		paneriai is where most of the vilnius jewish population was liquidated by the nazis during world war two (along with a bunch of poles and lithuanians).
		noz and i reached paneriai (itself a bit of an ordeal--the locals do not make it easy to find), we found a peaceful wooded area.
		there are a couple of plaques and monuments at paneriai, and a small museum that was closed even though we were there during its posted hours.
	upyernoz.blogspot.com /2006/08/paneriai.html (435 words)

	US Bazaar.com : Encyclopedia Pages : Paneriai
		Paneriai (Polish: Ponary, German: Ponaren) is a suburb of Vilnius, situated about 10 kilometres away from the city centre.
		Paneriai was the site of a mass killing of as many as 100,000 people (mostly Jews, Russians and Poles) from Vilnius and nearby towns and villages during World War II.
		The executions at Paneriai are currently a matter of an investigation by the Gdańsk branch of the Polish Institute of National Remembrance.
	encyclopedia.us-bazaar.com /?title=Paneriai (727 words)

	Paneriai
		Paneriai (Polish Ponary, German Ponaren) is a suburb of Vilnius, some 10 kilometres away from the city centre.
		Paneriai was the site of a mass killing of as many as 100,000 Jews and others from Vilna during the Holocaust
		Between July 1941 and August 1944 Paneriai became the mass murder site of approximately 100,000 victims, the vast majority of them Jews, many from nearby Vilna.
	www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/pa/Paneriai.htm (595 words)

	Day-trips from Vilnius, Lithuania. Travel guide & tourist information by Hostelbookers.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		PANERIAI, the site where the Nazis and their Lithuanian accomplices murdered one hundred thousand people during World War II, lies within Vilnius city limits in a forest at the edge of a suburb, 10km southwest of the centre.
		Seventy thousand of those killed at Paneriai were Jews from Vilnius, who were systematically exterminated from the time the Germans arrived in June 1941 until they were driven out by the Soviet army in 1944.
		Paths lead to the pits in the woods where the Nazis burnt the bodies of their victims and to another eight-metre pit where the bones of the dead were crushed.
	www.hostelbookers.com /guides/lithuania/day-trips_from_vilnius (549 words)

	Tour to Paneriai
		The first monument in Paneriai was erected in 1948, but in 1952 it was replaced by the new one.
		In 1960, in Paneriai a museum displaying the tragedy of Paneriai was established.
		Nowadays, the entrance to the Paneriai memorial complex is marked by three stone slabs with the inscription in Russian, Lithuanian and Hebrew that were established to embalm the memory of the hundred thousands murdered people.
	www.vilnius-hotels.net /tours/paneriai.htm (357 words)

	Paneriai - Wikipedia Mirror (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Paneriai (Polish: -{Ponary}-, German: -{Ponaren}-) is a suburb of Vilnius, situated about 10 kilometres away from the city centre.
		Paneriai was the site of a mass killing of as many as 100,000 people (mostly Jews and Poles) from Vilnius and nearby towns and villages during World War II.
		The executions were carried out by German units of SD and SS with help from local Lithuanian police unit Ypatingasis Būrys.
	www.wiki-mirror.be /index.php/Paneriai (628 words)

	clevescene.com - News - The Hunt For Dailide
		Jews were walked or trucked to Paneriai, stripped of their clothes, and led in rows of 10 or 20 before a bank of shooters, most of whom were local volunteers.
		Paneriai was six miles from the streets of Vilnius, but the government said Dailide couldn't have been "uncertain" about what happened there.
		The trail from the Lukishkes prison to Paneriai passed within a block of Saugumas headquarters.
	www.clevescene.com /Issues/2000-11-16/news/feature_4.html (918 words)

	Paneriai
		The Holocaust is the name applied to the systematic state-sponsored persecution and genocide of various ethnic, religious and political groups during World War II by Nazi Germany and collaborators.
		Paneriai: Encyclopedia II - The Holocaust - Etymology and usage of the term
		Paneriai: Encyclopedia II - The Holocaust - Execution of the Holocaust
	www.experiencefestival.com /paneriai (1645 words)

	The Ultimate Paneriai Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
		Paneriai (Polish: Ponary) is a suburb of Vilnius, some 10 kilometres away from the city centre.
		The construction was never finished as in 1941 the area got under German occupation.
		The executions were carried out by local Lithuanian police unit Ypatingasis Burys as well as German units of SD and SS.
	www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/Paneriai (340 words)

	Tour To Paneriai (Ponar)
		Paneriai is six miles outside the city of Vilnius.
		Here in the Paneriai Forest, close to the railroad tracks, the Nazis killed and buried over 100'000 civilians, 70'000 of them Jews in the pits.
		Now the site of mass executions is commemorated by the memorial to the victims of the Lithuanian holocaust and a small museum displays the tragedy of Paneriai.
	www.balticroads.lt /en/tours/paneriai.asp (186 words)

	Union of Councils for Soviet Jews: Knesset Speaker Addresses Lithuanian Parliament on Holocaust
		Sept 23 (Interfax/BNS) - Chairman of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, Reuven Rivlin has presented "a historical claim" to Lithuanians for their collaboration with the Nazis in the mass murder of Jews during WWII.
		Rivlin made this statement during a speech in the community of Paneriai on Tuesday, when Lithuania was commemorating the victims of Jewish genocide on its territory.
		Paneriai was a site of mass killings and burial of Jews during the Nazi occupation.
	www.fsumonitor.com /stories/092303Lithuania.shtml (387 words)

	Boston.com / Boston Globe Magazine /
		Here, at last, was documentary proof that Lileikis had rounded up Jews and dispatched them to Paneriai, a hamlet six miles from Vilnius, where they were stripped, herded into large sandy pits, and shot to death.
		He was taken in by a sympathetic Pole, given clothing, and in the morning he returned to the Jewish ghetto to resume life with his family.
		Arrested again in 1943 under an assumed name, he was taken back to Paneriai and worked digging up corpses in the pits and burning them.
	graphics.boston.com /globe/magazine/1998/11-8/featurestory1 (4735 words)

	Alleged Nazi Aleksandras Lileikis
		He should even be able to see the road down which Jews were marched to their deaths in the nearby killing field of Paneriai.
		In the last half of 1941 alone, 33,000 Jews were murdered at Paneriai.
		Jankovski, who still lives by Paneriai in a broken, tumble-down cottage, is clear about the punishment he thinks should be meted out to Lileikis.
	www.balticsww.com /news/features/old/Lieliekis.htm (1008 words)

	Vilnius - Sightseeing - Jewish Vilnius Lithuania - Paneriai - In Your Pocket (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Open by prior arrangement during the winter), where some 100,000 civilians were butchered by the Nazis and their henchmen.
		Paneriai is about 8km southwest of Old Town, and the site is criminally difficult to find due to a serious lack of signs.
		Catch a Trakai-bound train and get off at Paneriai, drive out on Savanorių until you reach the E28 highway, or take a bus from Žemieji Paneriai at the end of Savanorių.
	www.inyourpocket.com /lithuania/vilnius/en/venue?id=LIVIENX0099 (110 words)

	#375: 08-18-98 - COURT REVOKES U.S. CITIZENSHIP OF FLORIDA MAN WHO ARRESTED JEWS IN "STING" OPERATION IN NAZI-OCCUPIED ...
		Many of the Jews turned over to the Nazis for punishment were shot and killed at Paneriai, a wooded area near Vilnius.
		In all, nearly 55,000 of Vilnius' 60,000 Jews perished at Paneriai during the Nazi occupation of Vilnius.
		The operation entrapped Jews who sought to flee their forcible confinement in the Vilnius ghetto at a time when the Nazis were drastically reducing the ghetto population through mass executions at Paneriai.
	www.usdoj.gov /opa/pr/1998/August/375crm.html (704 words)

	RV REALTY - Manufacturing rooms with a plot in Vilnius, Aukstieji paneriai. Commercial Premises in Vilnius
		RV REALTY - Manufacturing rooms with a plot in Vilnius, Aukstieji paneriai.
		Manufacturing rooms with a plot in Vilnius, Aukstieji paneriai
		The building is rented, could be sold with or without tenants.
	www.rvrealty.lt /index.php/objektu_tipai/commercial_premises/1310 (76 words)

	Lithuanian Jews/Vilnius-Vilna
		The Jewish ghetto was encircled by barbed wire and transformed into a prison camp for the city's 60,000 Jews, nearly all of whom were later marched to the Paneriai forest eight kilometers away and executed.
		Vilnius's Jewish past still draws tens of thousands of Jewish visitors a year from the United States, Israel Argentina and also South Africa, where as many as 80 percent of the nation's 90,000 Jews descend from Lithuanian Jews, or litvaks.
		This eerie pine forest is the killing field where up to 100,000 people, mostly Jews, were shot by German soldiers and collaborators.
	www.balticsww.com /jews_vilnius.htm (734 words)

	Neries regioninis parkas
		The Neris could have flowed from Ausiutiškiai to Paneriai eroding a valley of only 2 kilometres long, and it curved even sixteen!
		As on the palm, one can see the rippling forests of Verkšionys and Kulis turn, a part of Zabarija hills, and on a clear day one can see the towers of Kernavė church 14 kilometres away.
		century, in the picturesque valley of the Neris, Paneriai Manor established.
	www.neriesparkas.lt /?id=76&l=2 (1152 words)

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		Thousands were sent to Paneriai, a wooded hamlet outside of Vilnius, where they were stripped of their clothing, lined up in pits, and shot.
		Rosenbaum was eager to bring to justice a man believed to have ordered such atrocities and who, unlike many of the men OSI prosecutes, was not simply "a trigger puller." Rosenbaum confronted the 76-year-old in his home with a document that consigned 52 Jews to the killing squads in Paneriai.
		Although Lileikis' name was typed at the bottom of the page, the order was not signed, and Lileikis denied any knowledge of it.
	www.law.harvard.edu /alumni/bulletin/2002/summer/feature_3-2.html (1376 words)

	USCA6 Opinion 00a0299p.06
		He also denies having any personal knowledge that Jews were shot at Paneriai, although he admits to having heard such a "rumor." However, according to the Government's expert historian, Dr. Yitzhak Arad, who has testified in similar denaturalization proceedings, by the end of 1941, approximately 30,000 Vilnius Jewish civilians had been killed by the Saugumas.
		Dailide admitted that, while at the prison, he would be escorted by a guard to a room, and the guard would then bring in the prisoner to be interviewed.
		Furthermore, two affidavits in the record also support the conclusion that Dailide assisted in the persecution of Jewish civilians, and thus was not eligible for a visa.
	www.michbar.org /opinions/us_appeals/2000/090500/8026.html (14875 words)

	Middle East Morass \| Christianity Today \| A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction
		As I was exploring country roads and cobblestone streets, hostilities broke out between Israel and Hezbollah, giving me much opportunity to practice Bonhoeffer's principle on how to regard people.
		You cannot understand the Israeli mindset unless you visit a scene from the Holocaust: Auschwitz, Dachau, or perhaps the Paneriai forest on the outskirts of Lithuania's capital.
		As trains full of Lithuania's Jews arrived daily at the tiny Paneriai station, ss guards marched the Jews to the pits and systematically shot them.
	www.christianitytoday.com /ct/2006/november/35.128.html (677 words)

	Lithuania Travel Guides : Best Of Lithuania
		In a forested suburb of Vilnius the Paneriai Memorial marks the entrance to a Nazi killing ground.
		Its three stone slabs commemorate the hundred thousand people, mostly Jews from the city, who were killed at Paneriai in World War II.
		The Gediminas Tower, which houses the Vilnius Castle Museum and is one of the city's best-known landmarks, is the ideal place to take some rooftop photographs of Vilnius.
	www.travelpages.com /lithuania/guides/92630.html (379 words)

	Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . FEATURE . The Jews of Lithuania . February 20, 1998 \| PBS
		Nearly 240,000 Jews lived in Lithuania, until the Nazis invaded the Baltics and began systematically killing Jews with the help of the local population, eliminating in a matter of months a community which had lived here for centuries.
		Nearly 70,000 Jews from Vilnius alone were shot in the Paneriai Forest.
		It serves as a memorial for the estimated 200,000 Lithuanian Jews who died.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/religionandethics/week125/feature.html (725 words)

	The Joys of Traveling 'Alone'
		Today I went to visit the Paneriai death camps where the Nazis mass shot about 70,000 Jews and then burned the bodies.
		I cant really come up with words to descibe Paneriai itself.
		There is nothing that I can say that hasnt been said already.
	www.feedbutcher.com /users/aaron/TripPost.aspx?TripPostID=205 (315 words)

	Title: Baltic States and Russia Tour 1998: Riga, Vilnius, Paneriai, Salaspils, Tallinn, Moscow, Smolensk, St. ...
		After years of longing to visit Riga and the Baltic States I finally made the trip in July of 1998.
		The thought suddenly occured to me that for the Nazis Paneriai was just a human garbage dump -- how low can mankind fall to think like that.
		We returned to the hotel for dinner, went for an evening walk, and then got ready for the long trip through Belarus to Smolensk, where we would be spending the night.
	www.cwo.com /~thowoods/baltics.htm (3940 words)

	#043: 01-30-97 - Former Member of Nazi-sponsored Security Police in Wartime Vilnius, Lithuania, Loses His Citizenship
		Judge Matia found that the Saugumas committed "documented atrocities" and that Dailide, a Cleveland area realtor, "assisted in persecution of civilian populations" during his service as a Saugumas officer.
		The court's decision cited authenticated documents showing that Dailide participated in the arrest and search of Jews attempting to flee their forcible confinement in Vilnius, including a document that indicates the Jews arrested by Dailide were destined to be shot and killed at Paneriai, a wooded area near Vilnius.
		The Vilnius Saugumas was subordinate to the German Security Police and Security Service and had responsibilities which paralleled those of the German Gestapo.
	www.usdoj.gov /opa/pr/1997/January97/043crm.htm (556 words)

	Jewish Heritage Sights
		This castle served briefly as the capital of his lands before he moved to Vilnius in 1323.
		Visit to Paneriai (Ponar), which is only six miles outside the city of Vilnius.
		City tour includes the most interesting architectural and historic monuments in the Old Town; former Kaunas Jewish Ghetto; Sugihara Centre; Kaunas' Choral Synagogue.
	www.balticroads.lt /en/tours/jhsights.asp (453 words)

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