1941 ⟶ Ponary Massacre Killings Begin
Ponary massacre killings begin, with the shooting of Soviet ...
Year
1941
💀 Ponary Massacre Killings Begin
Ponary massacre killings begin, with the shooting of Soviet POWs captured during Operation Barbarossa, which began two weeks earlier, and with the deportation of hundreds of Jews from Vilnius to Soviet dug fuel tank pits near the Ponariai suburb of Vilnius, where they are shot or buried alive. Reports by survivors are accepted as hallucinations. The mass deportations and shooting of Jews continued until 1943.⟶
HolocaustMass MurderGenocideLithuaniaVilniusSoviet POWsJewsEastern FrontOperation BarbarossaNazi Germany
💀 Massacre of Vilnius Jewish Quarter Residents Begins
Murder of all 3,700 residents of the old Jewish quarter in Vilnius begins at the Ponary death site along with 10 members of the Judenrat. First written testimony of occurrences at Ponary by a survivor.⟶
LithuaniaVilniusPonaryJewsHolocaustMassacreWar CrimeGenocideExterminationJewish Council
🩸 Bloody Sunday Massacre in Stanisławów
Bloody Sunday massacre at Stanisławów, 8,000–12,000 Jews were rounded up and shot into pits by SIPO (Ukrainian police) together with German uniformed SS men. Dr. Tenenbaum of the Judenrat heroically refuses the offer of exemption and is shot along with the others.⟶
HolocaustMassacreStanislawowJewsSSUkraineGenocideEastern FrontWar Crimes
🔥 Odessa Massacre Begins
Odessa massacre begins and continues for two days. 25,000 to 34,000 Jews are led in a long procession and are shot and killed in an antitank ditch, or burnt alive after being crowded into four buildings.⟶
HolocaustMassacreEastern FrontRomaniaJewish PersecutionWar CrimesGenocideSoviet Union
🪦 Bolekhiv First Aktion Massacre
Bolekhiv first aktion massacre – 1,000 of the leading Jews rounded up by list, tortured, and on the following day 800 of the surviving Jews, were shot or buried alive at a nearby forest. The re-discovered atrocities and testimony in 1996 lead to Patrick Desbois's research on the German method of "One Bullet, One Jew" extermination in 1941 and 1942.⟶
HolocaustBolekhivMassacreJewish PersecutionGenocideWar CrimesOne Bullet, One JewEastern FrontExtermination
✡️ Vilna Ghetto Aktion: Jews Shot at Ponary Massacre Site
Vilna Ghetto 'Gestapo block' Aktion. 300 Jews shot at the Ponary massacre site.⟶
HolocaustVilna GhettoMassacrePonaryPersecutionJewsNazi GermanyEastern EuropeGenocideAktion