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    Ponary [pɔˈnarɨ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Miłakowo, within Ostróda County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland...
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  • The Ponary massacre (Polish: zbrodnia w Ponarach), or the Paneriai massacre (Lithuanian: Panerių žudynės), was the mass murder of up to 100,000 people...
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    Paneriai (literally Lithuanian: "a place near Neris"; adapted to Polish: Ponary, Yiddish: פאנאר/Ponar) is a neighborhood of Vilnius, situated about 10 kilometres...
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    in which Jews without work papers were captured and killed at the nearby Ponary execution grounds. As a work assignment, HKP 562 was particularly sought...
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    Ninth Fort Kaunas June 1941 Kaunas 29 October 1941 Ninth Fort November 1941 Ponary Poland Operation Tannenberg Intelligenzaktion AB-Aktion Russia Gully of...
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    Vilnius begins at the Ponary death site along with 10 members of the Judenrat. First written testimony of occurrences at Ponary by a survivor. Vilna Ghetto...
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    journalist. A witness to the prolonged Ponary massacre, he chronicled much of it in his diary, published in English as Ponary Diary, which became one of the best...
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    Festival Kamianets-Podilskyi Maly Trostenets Ninth Fort Odesa Piaśnica Ponary Rumbula Resistance Jewish partisans Bielski partisans Ghetto uprisings Warsaw...
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  • Yar Bydgoszcz Częstochowa Kamianets-Podilskyi Ninth Fort Odessa Piaśnica Ponary Rumbula Erntefest "Final Solution" Wannsee Conference Mogilev Conference...
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  • Ypatingasis būrys killing squad, which was largely responsible for the Ponary massacre where approximately 100,000 people were shot. He was born to a...
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    Antwerp Gabès Kaunas (June) Szczuczyn Iași Lviv Wąsosz Jedwabne Farhud Ponary Tykocin Kamianets-Podilskyi Babi Yar Odessa Švenčionėliai Kaunas (October)...
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    are Babi Yar, where the Jews of Kiev and surrounding areas were killed; Ponary, where the Jews of Vilnius were murdered; and the Ninth Fort in Kaunas....
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    also returned to the scenes of earlier mass killings such as Babi Yar, Ponary, the Ninth Fort, as well as Bronna Góra. By 1944, with Soviet armies advancing...
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  • official autonomy. In Polish they were colloquially called strzelcy ponarscy ("Ponary riflemen" in Polish). The Vilnian Special Squad (Lithuanian: Ypatingasis...
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  • and a leader of "Ponary Families" Association (Stowarzyszenie „Rodzina Ponarska”). various articles, mostly in Nasz Dziennik Ponary. Wileńska golgota...
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    pointed out the prison's involvement in the Holocaust and its role in the Ponary massacre; denounced Netflix's partnering with local tourism board Go Vilnius...
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    Andrius Bulota (category Victims of the Ponary massacre)
    the Soviet Union in June 1941, Bulota was arrested and executed in the Ponary massacre on 16 August 1941. Bulota was born on 16 November 1872 in Putriškiai [lt]...
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    Pit where bodies were burned after the Ponary massacre...
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    Jews that their relatives who had been taken away had been murdered in the Ponary massacre and argued that it was best to die fighting. Nobody at that time...
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  • "quiet" phase. He was a member the Einsatzkommando 3 who took part in the Ponary massacre. He imposed the concept of "collective responsibility" where relatives...
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    Yar Bydgoszcz Częstochowa Kamianets-Podilskyi Ninth Fort Odessa Piaśnica Ponary Rumbula Erntefest "Final Solution" Wannsee Conference Mogilev Conference...
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  • helped Germans in rounding up the Jews for deportation and execution in Ponary in October–December 1941 and in liquidating several smaller ghettos from...
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    Yar Bydgoszcz Częstochowa Kamianets-Podilskyi Ninth Fort Odessa Piaśnica Ponary Rumbula Erntefest "Final Solution" Wannsee Conference Mogilev Conference...
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    Yar Bydgoszcz Częstochowa Kamianets-Podilskyi Ninth Fort Odessa Piaśnica Ponary Rumbula Erntefest "Final Solution" Wannsee Conference Mogilev Conference...
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    February Yiddish poet from Vilna (Lithuania) Soviet Union Vilna Ghetto, Ponary massacre None Seweryna Szmaglewska 27 February Polish Auschwitz survivor...
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    already killed hundreds of Polish civilians since 1941 (particularly the Ponary massacre),: 168–169  intensified their operations against the Poles. In...
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  • German invasion of the Soviet Union: the massacre of Lwów professors, the Ponary massacre and the Czarny Las massacre; any Nazi actions in Poland meant to...
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