The Shoah (1939–1945)
Massacre of Zarasai
26 août 1941·Zarasai
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 the town of lakes and surrounding localities are gathered and then shot in a single day, with a few political prisoners added to the column.
Zarasai, on the shores of the lakes in the northeast, serves as a gathering point for Jews from the surrounding towns, brought there over a period of weeks. At the end of August, all are led out of the town and shot in a single day by the mobile detachment supported by Lithuanian auxiliaries. The surrounding communities, emptied beforehand, disappear along with that of the town.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Lituanie
Le rapport Jäger ; Christoph Dieckmann, *Deutsche Besatzungspolitik in Litauen*.