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    The Battle of Ponary heights (Russian: Сражение на Понарских высотах; Polish: Bitwa pod Ponarami), also knowing Battle of Vilnius was one of the most important...
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    Aukštieji Paneriai (literally Lithuanian: "a place near Neris"; adapted to Polish: Ponary, Yiddish: פאנאר/Ponar) is a neighborhood of Vilnius, situated...
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  • (Polish: zbrodnia w Ponarach), or the Paneriai massacre (Lithuanian: Panerių žudynės), was the mass murder of up to 100,000 people, mostly Jews, Poles...
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    Antoni Giełgud (category Recipients of the Virtuti Militari)
    composed of his own division and the forces of Dezydery Chłapowski lost over 2,000 men in the battle of Paneriai. Unable to return to Polish-Lithuanian main...
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    continued the fight while making the way through Paneriai, Rūdninkai, Eišiškės and Novy Dvor [pl]. The defense of Vilnius despite initial successes became a...
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  • residents, most of them being Jews. The massacre of 100,000 Jews and Poles at Paneriai Nikolaev massacre, which resulted in the deaths of 35,782 Soviet...
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    Lviv. At the age of 22, he joined his father in the service of the Commonwealth, battling against the Ottoman Empire in the Moldavian Magnate Wars. After...
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  • over to the Nazis. Such people were generally shot outside Vilnius at the Paneriai execution pits, where about 50,000 Jews were murdered. His U.S. citizenship...
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    guns and 15 prisoners), 25.X. to the village of Paneriai [lt], which caused alarm in a large section of the front (trophies 2 ckm and more than 40 prisoners)...
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    Vilnius (redirect from Capital of Lithuania)
    Watermill-Museum, Museum of Vladislovas Sirokomlė, Amber Museum-Gallery, and the Paneriai Memorial visitor information centre. Vilnius has a number of art galleries...
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  • of the local Jewish population was murdered. Many of them were among 100,000 victims of the mass executions in Paneriai, about 10 kilometres west of the...
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    Grand Duke Gediminas Staff Battalion (category Battalions of Lithuania)
    deployed to Aukštieji Paneriai, Vilnius. In 1997, the regiment's veterans asked President Algirdas Brazauskas to rename any unit of the Lithuanian Army...
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  • Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force (category Military history of Lithuania during World War II)
    in Paneriai and deported 1,089 to Stutthof and Oldenburg concentration camps. While some were later forced into Nazi service, all except four of the...
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  • we killed 50% of Poles, under Germans we will kill the other 50%". One of the most infamous series of incidents took place in the Paneriai (Polish: Ponary)...
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    between Verkiai and Paneriai. The bridge was burned by retreating Lithuanian Army commanded by Janusz Radziwiłł after the Battle of Vilnius (1655). A new...
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    pipe from the source. The fence of the homestead has also survived. The name Vokė was first mentioned in 1375, when a battle between the Lithuanians and the...
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  • Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy (category Client states of Nazi Germany)
    killed 70,000 Jews in Paneriai and other places.[clarification needed] In Minsk, the 2nd Battalion shot about 9,000 Soviet prisoners of war, and in Slutsk...
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    Principality of Kiev (see Battle on the Irpin River and Battle of Blue Waters), territories already inhabited by Jews. After the death of Casimir III (1370)...
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    construction of the Paneriai railway tunnel [lt] in 1858. Paintings of episodes from the history of Lithuania were replaced by paintings of landscapes....
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