The Shoah (1939–1945)
Anyksciai shootings
août 1941·Anyksciai
The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.
The Jews of Anyksciai and surrounding villages are locked in stables on the outskirts of the town, then led in groups to a wood where they are shot.
The Jews of Anyksciai and the surrounding villages are locked in stables on the outskirts of the town, where they remain for several days without food, then led in groups toward a forest where they are shot. The town had sheltered a community whose craftsmen supplied the regional fairs.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Lituanie
*Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos*, dirigée par Geoffrey Megargee ; Yitzhak Arad, *The Holocaust in the Soviet Union*.