Memorial
Memorial
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- Paneriai Panerių memorialas
Lonely Planet review for Memorial
About half the city's Jewish population had already been massacred here by the end of the first three months of the German occupation (June to September 1941) at the hands of Einsatzkommando 9, an SS killing unit of elite Nazi troops. Lithuanian accomplices are accused of doing as much of the killing as their German overseers. The forest entrance is marked by a memorial, the Panerių memorialas.
The text in Russian, dating from the Soviet period, remembers the 100,000 'Soviet citizens' killed here. The memorial plaques in Lithuanian and Hebrew - erected later - honour the 70,000 Jewish victims.
