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  Ponary
Ponary was chosen for the mass-murder of Jews, Soviet POWs, and civilians because there were several large pits, dug there by the Soviets
At Ponary three killing pits are still to be seen today.
Subject of the proceeding: Mishandling and individual killings of Jews from Wilna, as well as participation in mass shootings in Ponary of a total of at least 30,000 Jews from the Wilna Ghetto, the Lukischki Prison and from the surroundings of Wilna.
www.deathcamps.org /occupation/ponary.html   (2409 words)

  
 Ponary - The Vilna Killing Site www.HolocaustResearchProject.org
The first executions at the Vilna killing site at Ponary took place on the 8 July 1941 one hundred Jews at a time were brought from the city to Ponary, to a waiting zone.
Among those taken to Ponary on the night of 31 August 1941 were many Jews who were being held in prison, after having been arrested in the previous weeks, among them Dr Jacob Wigodsky and the young Jewish historian Pinkus Kohn.
In 1944 at the Ponary execution site Szloma Gol was among seventy Jews, and ten Russian prisoners –of – war suspected of being Jewish, who as members of a “Blobel Kommando”, had to dig up and then burn the bodies of those who had been murdered during the years 1941 – 1943.
www.holocaustresearchproject.org /einsatz/ponary.html   (5143 words)

  
 : : : : F O R U M : : : : Żydzi - Chrześcijanie - Muzułmanie
During Soviet times, there was a monument in Ponary with the inscription that only Soviet citizens died there at the hands of the Nazis.
In Ponary, the Polish community suffered a terrible blow as well--the elites were murdered.
Ponary was chosen as a place for the murders because, in 1940, the Soviets started to build a liquid fuel base for airplanes there.
www.forum-znak.org.pl /print.php?t=przeglad&id=1561&l=en   (583 words)

  
 Fglass - glass: Glass: Ponary Diary, 1941-1943: A Bystander's Account of a Mass Murder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
About sixty thousand Jews from Wilno (Vilnius, Jewish Vilna) and surrounding townships in present-day Lithuania were murdered by the Nazis and their Lithuanian collaborators in huge pits on the outskirts of Ponary.
Over a period of several years, Kazimierz Sakowicz, a Polish journalist who lived in the village of Ponary, was an eyewitness to the murder of these Jews as well as to the murders of thousands of non-Jews on an almost daily basis.
It is an almost casual diary of a Polish journalist who lived in the area of the infamous killing fields of Ponary.
www.fglass.com /index.php?c=glass&n=4994&i=0300108532&x=Ponary_Diary_1941_1943_A_Bystanders_Account_of_a_Mass_Murder   (515 words)

  
 Vilna
Children, the elderly, and the sick were sent to the Sobibor extermination camp or were shot at Ponary.
In September 1943, in an attempt to destroy the evidence of the killing of Jews at Ponary, the Germans forced detachments of Jewish laborers to open the mass graves and burn the corpses.
Jews from nearby labor camps continued to be killed at Ponary.
www.ushmm.org /wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005173&printing=yes   (683 words)

  
 The story of Anton Schmid
Drafted into the German army after the Anschluss of 1938, Schmid found himself stationed near Vilnius in the autumn of 1941.
As a sergeant of the Wehrmacht he witnessed the herding of Jews into two ghettos and the shooting of thousands of them in nearby Ponary.
In a letter to his wife, Stefi, Schmid described his horror at the sight of mass murder and of "children being beaten on the way".
www.auschwitz.dk /Schmid/Schmid.htm   (809 words)

  
 Paneriai
Paneriai (Polish Ponary) is a suburb of Vilnius, some 10 kilometres away from the city centre.
The town is located on low forested hills, on the Vilnius-Warsaw road.
The executions at Ponary are currently a matter of an investigation by the Gdańsk branch of the Polish IPN.
www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/p/pa/paneriai.html   (313 words)

  
 Verzet.org - De Einsatzgruppen en de Wilde Holocaust. Deel 2
Ponary (Paneriai) ligt ongeveer 6 kilometer ten westen van Vilnius in de Baltische republiek Litouwen.
In de bossen van Ponary hadden de Russen voor de oorlog grote diepe putten gegraven om er olietanks in te bouwen, maar zij verlieten de terreinen nog vooraleer alles was afgewerkt.
Tegenwoordig liggen de schattingen omtrent het aantal slachtoffers die in de putten van Ponary het leven lieten, geschat tussen de 70.000 en de 100.000 Als je tegenwoordig het Ponary Memoriaal bezoekt dan kan je nog steeds de drie putten zien waar de massamoorden plaatsvonden.
www.verzet.org /content/view/405/32   (701 words)

  
 Ponary Diary, 1941-1943: A Bystander's Account of a Mass Murder
About sixty thousand Jews from Wilno (Vilnius, Jewish Vilna) and surrounding townships in present-day Lithuania were murdered by the Nazis and their Lithuanian collaborators in huge pits on the outskirts of Ponary.
Over a period of several years, Kazimierz Sakowicz, a Polish journalist who lived in the village of Ponary, was an eyewitness to the murder of these Jews as well as to the murders of thousands of non-Jews on an almost daily basis.
It is an almost casual diary of a Polish journalist who lived in the area of the infamous killing fields of Ponary.
www.xmlwriter.net /books/viewbook/Ponary_Diary,_1941_1943:_A_Bystander_s_Account_of_a_Mass_Murder-0300108532.html   (602 words)

  
 'Vergasungsapparate': Gassing as a 'Remedy' for Jews (Document NO-365)
But while in mid-1941 the "science" of murder by gas had been well-nigh perfected by the operatives in the euthanasia program, these lessons had not been learned by the different bureaucracies responsible for overseeing the extermination of the Jews.
The document below describes Brack as a man who can help put a stop to bloody, very public executions such as that in Vilna.
Ponary is just a few miles southwest of Vilna.
www.holocaust-history.org /19411025-wetzel-no365   (1291 words)

  
 Ponary massacre
Poonary massacre (or Panerai massacre) refers to the events that took place between July 1941, and August 1944 in the town of Paneriai (Polish: Ponary) (now suburb of Vilnius/Wilno), which became the mass murder site of approximately 100,000 victims, the vast majority of them Jews and Poles many from nearby metropolis of Vilnius.
The executions were carried out by German units of SD and SS with help from local Lithuanians Special SD and Security Police Squad Ypatingasis būrys
During the interwar period the town of Ponary was part of the Second Polish Republic, Wilno Voivodship (Kresy region).
ponary-massacre.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/Ponary_massacre   (0 words)

  
 Ponary - miejsce ka¼ni Polaków
Jako miejsce zag³ady tysiêcy obywateli Rzeczypospolitej Niemcy obrali ogromne do³y w lesie ko³o osiedla Górne Ponary.
Ponary s± szczególnym miejscem ka¼ni, bowiem rozgrywa³y siê tu istne orgie bestialstwa.
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www.naszawitryna.pl /jedwabne_1062.html   (581 words)

  
 RTRFoundation
Jews considered incapable of work were concentrated in ghetto #2.
In October 1941, German Einsatzgruppen detachments and Lithuanian auxiliaries destroyed ghetto #2, killing the ghetto population in Ponary, a wooded area about eight miles southwest of Vilna.
From the sprint of 1942 until the spring of 1943, there were no mass killing operations in Vilna.
www.rtrfoundation.org /map12a.html   (657 words)

  
 Vilno (Vilnius)
Le même mois, les Einsatzgruppen (unités mobiles d'intervention) aidées par des Lituaniens, tuèrent 5 000 Juifs dans la forêt de Ponary, à 13 kilomètres de Vilnius.
Les enfants, les personnes âgées et les malades furent envoyés au camp d'extermination de Sobibor ou fusillés à Ponary.
En septembre 1943, voulant détruire les preuves de l'assassinat des Juifs à Ponary, les Allemands forcèrent les détachements de travailleurs juifs à ouvrir les charniers et à brûler les corps.
memorial-wlc.recette.lbn.fr /article.php?lang=fr&ModuleId=30   (675 words)

  
 The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
During the November Uprising, on June 19, 1831, the Battle of Ponary took place near the village, in which the forces of Dezydery Chłapowski and Antoni Giełgud were defeated by Russian infantry.
As result of Russia's withdrawal from World War I, and the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, the area was acquired by Germany and transferred to Belarusian People's Republic.
Czesław Michalski, Ponary - Golgota Wileńszczyzny (Ponary - the Golgoth of Wilno Region).
www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Paneriai   (469 words)

  
 Paneriai . Soviet Union . 1941 . Gdansk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Paneriai Polish language Polish: Ponary is a suburb of Vilnius, some 10 kilometres away from the city centre.
The executions were carried out by local Lithuanian police unit Ypatingasis Burys as well as German units of SD and SS.
It is a major industrial, commercial and cultural center, and remains the most important center of Tatar...
www.uk.fraquisanto.net /Paneriai   (384 words)

  
 Just Revenge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
In Dershowitz's second legal thriller--Abe (along with the whole judicial system) is confronted with a still bigger dilemma: Is a Holocaust survivor entitled to seek revenge on the perpetrator who butchered his family some 50 years earlier?
Max Menuchen was just 18 years old when Captain Marcelus Prandus of the Lithuanian Auxiliary Militia forced his family (and dozens of other Jewish families) into the Ponary Woods in Vilna, Lithuania, making them dig their own graves.
That was what drove him to the vengeance in which he was now engaged.
www.wetellyou.de /Just-Revenge-0_155927574X_1   (325 words)

  
 Cz. Michalski, Ponary - Golgota Wileńszczyzny
Dotychczas nie było oficjalnej, wyrażonej przez stronę litewską skruchy za masowe, bestialskie mordy na Polakach, za okrucieństwa ówczesnej policji, Saugumy, za zbrodnie ludobójstwa czasu okupacji - za Ponary.
Ponary to największe miejsce kaźni na kresach dawnej Rzeczpospolitej.
Niemcy po rozpoczęciu wojny z ZSRR zajęli Wilno, zwrócili uwagę na niedokończoną budowę bazy, paliw płynnych w pobliżu stacji kolejowej Ponary.
www.wsp.krakow.pl /konspekt/konspekt5/ponary.html   (977 words)

  
 Ponary Diary 1941 1943 A Bystander's Account of a Mass Murder
Ponary Diary 1941 1943 A Bystander's Account of a Mass Murder
European History : Ponary Diary 1941 1943 A Bystander's Account of a Mass Murder
I've decided to read this book because I visited Vilnius (Lithuania) last month and there I visited the KGB museum.
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 ZEIT online - Politik : "Lieber als Helfer krepieren"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Die ungelernten Arbeiter wurden in der Folgezeit systematisch selektiert, mit Lastwagen und in Eisenbahntransporten in das etwa zehn Kilometer südlich gelegene Dorf Ponary gebracht und dort erschossen.
Ponary war, so der polnische Schriftsteller Józef Mackiewicz, "einer der größten Judenschlachthöfe Europas".
Simon Wiesenthal gibt wieder, was ihm Wilnaer Juden, die von Schmid gerettet wurden, nach dem Kriege berichteten: "Unter höchster Lebensgefahr schlich er sich in das Getto, um verhungernden Juden Lebensmittel zu bringen.
www.zeit.de /archiv/2000/19/200019.schmid_.xml   (648 words)

  
 The Holocaust Chronicle PROLOGUE: Roots of the Holocaust, page 246
A column of Jews is herded by Lithuanian auxiliary police into a narrow circular passage.
They are en route to their execution at an unfinished construction site in Ponary near Vilna.
July 10, 1941: July 10, 1941: All 1600 Jewish residents of the Polish town of Jedwabne are accosted by their Polish neighbors, and by peasants from outlying areas, and are marched to the central market.
www.holocaustchronicle.org /staticpages/246.html   (416 words)

  
 Ponary – największe miejsce kaźni koło Wilna (1941-1944) -
Ponary – największe miejsce kaźni koło Wilna (1941-1944)
Należały do nich podwileńskie Ponary - miejsce straceń w latach 1941-1944 tysięcy obywateli polskich - w tym wszystkich Żydów zamieszkałych na Wileńszczyźnie oraz Polaków przywożonych z więzień hitlerowskich.
Jeżeli nie wiesz co to są Ponary, a tym bardziej, jeśli nie zamierzasz kupować książki, to posłuchaj wywiadu z autorką książki, jaki odbył się na antenie Radia Maryja 31 lipca 2004 roku:
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 Jewish History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Led by Isaac Dogim and Yudi Farber, a tunnel was dug with spoons running under a barbed wire fence and a mine field.
The Sonderkommando 1005 under Commander Paul Blobel had the job of burning the bodies both in extermination camps and at mass graves.
This material is copyrighted and cannot be used without the permission of the author.
www.davidsconsultants.com /jewishhistory/history.php?id=5937   (136 words)

  
 Nowa strona 0
Ponary is located by the one part of the Narie lake.
There is a smithy also (nearby photo), which was built in 1861.
Whole complex lies in landscaping park, on a slopes of a hill next to the Ponary lake (north-east part of Narie lake)
www.milakowo.ug.net.pl /wersjaangielska/tourism.htm   (520 words)

  
 Ponary - "Tylko dlatego, że byliśmy Polakami"
W polskojęzycznej encyklopedii multimedialnej (onet.pl) hasło "Ponary" objaśnia się następująco: "Miejscowość na Litwie, w pobliżu Wilna.
Po powrocie ze spowiedzi powiedziała: "Jadę na Ponary.
- Pierwsze wydanie książki "Ponary - wileńska Golgota" sfinansowałam sama.
www.naszawitryna.pl /jedwabne_966.html   (2799 words)

  
 Ponary Diary, 1941-1943: A Bystander's Account of a Mass Murder by Kazimierz Sakowicz : Book
Ponary Diary, 1941-1943: A Bystander's Account of a Mass Murder by Kazimierz Sakowicz : Book
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 Science Fair Projects - Adolf Lindenbaum
Or else, you can start by choosing any of the categories below.
June 12, 1904 in Warsaw - 1941 in Ponary, Poland) was a Polish logician and mathematician.
He was murdered by the Germans in Ponary, near Wilno.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Adolf_Lindenbaum   (192 words)

  
 DeutschesFachbuch.de : Die geheimen Notizen des K. Sakowicz Dokumente zur Judenvernichtung in Ponary 1941 - 1943   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Das Tagebuch des polnischen Journalisten Kazimierz Sakowicz gehört zu den wenigen noch unbekannten Dokumenten, welche die unvergleichlichen Verbrechen des Nationalsozialismus in Osteuropa belegen.
Anfänglich notierte der Journalist seine Beobachtungen eher emotionslos und distanziert, jedoch stets mit Interesse.
Oktober 1941, bei dem 3 900 Wilnaer Juden an der Mordstätte Ponary umgebracht wurden, sind nicht dokumentiert.
www.deutschesfachbuch.de /info/detail.php?isbn=3596166071&part=1&word=   (535 words)

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