Panerių Memorialas in Aukstieji Paneriai, Vilnius

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Aukstieji Paneriai, Vilnius City Municipality, Vilnius Lithuania

Coordinates: 54.62600, 25.16200
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The Ponary massacre (or Paneriai massacre) was the mass-murder of 100,000 people, mostly Jews, by German SD, SS and Lithuanian Nazi Sonderkommando collaborators (Special SD and German Security Police Squad "Ypatingasis būrys" units) during World War II and the Holocaust in Reichskommissariat Ostland.

The executions took place between July 1941 and August 1944 near the railway station of Paneriai (Polish: Ponary), now a suburb of Vilnius. Some 70,000 Jews were murdered in Ponary, along with estimated 20,000 Poles and 8,000 Russians, many from nearby Vilnius.

The victims were taken to the site of a partially constructed underground fuel tank abandoned when the Germans invaded, shot, and left in the pits.

As the Soviets and Americans advanced, an unknown number of victims were exhumed and cremated in an attempt to hide the evidence.

There are currently monuments at the sites to victims of various nationalities. No lists of victims appeared to have been kept by the Germans and none are individually named on the memorials.