In the forest region of Ponar, outside of what is now the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, Lithuanian volunteers marched more than 70,000 men, women and children, mostly Jews, to the edge of large pits ...
A proposed museum in the former Jewish ghetto in Vilnius, Lithuania, features portraits of families who once lived there. Christian Als Shortly after dawn one January day in 1944, a German military ...
In 1999, a remarkable book was published in Poland. Its author, Kazimierz Sakowicz, had died 55 years earlier, and it’s not clear whether he hoped, let alone expected, that what he had written would ...
Prisoners dug the tunnel in a pit they were kept in A tunnel dug out with spoons by Jewish prisoners escaping Nazi captors in World War Two has been uncovered in Lithuania's Ponar forest. The ...
The diary of Kazimierz Sakowicz opens with his description of a pleasant summer day in the Ponar forest, outside the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius: "July 11: Quite nice weather, warm, white clouds, ...
VILNIUS, Lithuania, June 29 (UPI) --A team of archaeologists has discovered a hand-dug escape tunnel at a Nazi extermination site in Lithuania. The tunnel, found on June 8, appears to substantiate the ...
Monumento alrededor de la hoguera que en la que se quemaban los cuerpos para borrar las evidencias del exterminio en Ponar, un suburbio de Vilna, la capital lituana. Por años, la historia de un grupo ...
JERUSALEM — A tunnel in Lithuania used by Jews to escape the Nazis during World War II has been uncovered by an international research team. The Israel Antiquities Authority announced the discovery on ...
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