The Shoah (1939–1945)
Massacre of Butrimonys
9 sept. 1941·Butrimonys
Toll
~740 morts
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 small community of the town, whose market square gathered the surrounding villages, is annihilated in one morning.
Butrimonys was a small town in southern Lithuania whose population was largely Jewish. In September, its inhabitants were led out of the village and shot in a single day by a mobile detachment supported by local auxiliaries. The town lost almost its entire population at once, and its community never recovered.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Lituanie
Sources
Le rapport Jäger ; Dov Levin, *The Litvaks*.