The Shoah (1939–1945)
Panevėžys Massacre
23 août 1941·Panevėžys
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In a single day, in the Pajuostė woods, the community of one of the country's great cities is annihilated; it is the deadliest day recorded in the commando's report.
Panevėžys was home to one of the great communities of Lithuania, with its schools, printing houses, and yeshiva. In a single day, at the Pajuostė forest, it was annihilated by the mobile detachment and its auxiliaries: men, women, and children were led in columns to the edge of the pits. It was the deadliest day recorded in the commando's report for the entire country.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Lituanie
Le rapport Jäger ; Yitzhak Arad, *The Holocaust in the Soviet Union*.