The Shoah (1939–1945)
Prienai Shootings
août 1941·Prienai
Toll
bilan non établi
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On the bank of the Niemen, the Prienai community is driven out of the town and shot in the summer, with the help of auxiliaries recruited locally.
On the banks of the Niemen, the community of Prienai is led out of the town and shot during the summer, with the assistance of auxiliaries recruited locally. The men are taken first, the women and children in the days that follow, and the pits are dug in a nearby wood.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Lituanie
Sources
*Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos*, dirigée par Geoffrey Megargee ; Yitzhak Arad, *The Holocaust in the Soviet Union*.