Paneriai mass-murder memorial site (Vilnius)

Lithuania / Vilniaus / Baltoji Voke / Vilnius
 memorial, Second World War 1939-1945, cemetery, Holocaust, massacre, green area, war cemetery, Cultural heritage of Lithuania
The Paneriai massacre was the mass-murder of about 100,000 people, mostly Jews, by German SD and some local collaborators, during World War II and the Holocaust in Reichskommissariat Ostland; after 1944 by Soviet NKVD. The mass executions took place between July 1941 and August 1944 near the railway station of Paneriai, now a part of Vilnius. The victims were brought to the edge of huge pits and shot to death by machine gun fire. Some Jews were murdered in Paneriai, along with Poles, Russians, Gypsies and Lithuanians.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponary_massacre
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Coordinates:   54°37'32"N   25°9'35"E
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