Two Jewish men about to be shot in the Ponary forest
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Two Jewish men about to be shot in the Ponary forest

Two Jewish men, wearing badges identifying them as Jews, stand before SS men in the Ponary forest outside Vilna. Ponary served as the main Nazi killing site for Vilna's Jewish inhabitants. ca. July 1941.

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

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