Groups of Jewish men being forced into the Ponary forest
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Groups of Jewish men being forced into the Ponary forest

SS guards and Lithuanian collaborators force Jewish men into the Ponary forest, a site for mass killings outside of Vilna. German-occupied Lithuania, 1941. 

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  • US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

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