Ponary massacre
The Ponary massacre or Paneriai massacre () was the mass murder of up to 100,000 people, mostly Jews, Poles, and Russians, by German "SD" and "SS" and their Lithuanian collaborators, including "Ypatingasis būrys" killing squads, during World War II and the Holocaust in "Reichskommissariat Ostland". The murders took place between July 1941 and August 1944 near the railway station at Ponary (now Paneriai), a suburb of today's Vilnius, Lithuania. Some 70,000 Jews were murdered at Ponary, along with up to 20,000 Poles, and 8,000 Russian POWs, most of them from nearby Vilna (Vilnius), and its newly-formed Vilna Ghetto.