The Shoah (1939–1945)
Vilkaviskis Shootings
septembre 1941·Vilkaviskis
Toll
bilan non établi
The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.
Suvalkija border town, Vilkaviskis loses its community in the opening weeks; men are shot first, women and children weeks later.
Border town of the Suwałki region, Vilkaviskis loses its community within the first weeks of the occupation. The men are shot first, in a wood near the barracks; the women and children, locked in barracks, are led to the same pits a few weeks later.
- 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*.