The Holocaust in Lithuania

Japanese diplomat, Righteous Among the Nations (1900-1986)

'''''' (, ; also 'task forces') were (SS) paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass murder, primarily by shooting, during World War II (1939–1945) in German-occupied Europe. The had an integral role in the implementation of the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish question" () in territories conquered by Nazi Germany, and were involved in the murder of much of the intelligentsia and cultural elite of Poland, including members of the Catholic priesthood. Almost all of the people they murdered were civilians, beginning with the intelligentsia and swiftly progres

Nazi racial plan of enslavement and genocide of peoples of Central and Eastern Europe, mainly Jews, Slavs & Roma

Genocide of Lithuanian Jews

destruction of evidence of mass murder at Operation Reinhardt killing centres

uprising by Lithuanians against the retreating Red Army in 1941

Death count of a Nazi death squad, 1941

Lithuanian killing squad

Jewish resistance organisation in Vilna Ghetto during World War II

During World War II, the Nazi German ''''''' were a sub-group of the ' (mobile killing squads) – up to 3,000 men total – usually composed of 500–1,000 functionaries of the SS and Gestapo, whose mission was to exterminate Jews, Polish intellectuals, Romani, and communists in the captured territories often far behind the advancing German front. Einsatzkommandos, along with Sonderkommandos, were responsible for the systematic murder of Jews during the aftermath of Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union. After the war, several commanders were tried in the Einsatzgruppen trial, conv

paramilitary units formed during the occupation of Lithuania by Nazi Germany between 1941 and 1944

Belarusian Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva (1874–1941)

Yeshiva located in Telšiai, Lithuania

1941 Nazi killing squad in Lithuania

Jan Zwartendijk was a Dutch businessman and diplomat who helped Jews escape Lithuania during World War II (1896–1976)

clandestine resistance organization

Paramilitary units and Nazy collaborators

former yeshiva in Vilijampolė, Lithuania

local police force in German-occupied Lithuania

museum

Lithuanian resistance partisan (1921-1951)

comparison of Soviet atrocities against Eastern Europeans to the Holocaust

Internal Nazi reports on the Holocaust