Paneriai mass killing place

• Selected Documents from the State Archive of the Russian Federation
• Atrinkti dokumentai iš Valstybinio Rusijos Federacijos archyvo

• Vilniaus Gaono žydų istorijos muziejus
• HE-35-IV (Garf)
• English, Lithuanian
• 1944-1945
• 126 pages, copies selected from 20 files; 61 pages, copies selected from 1 file.
• Updated 8 years ago

Protocols of the witnesses of the mass killings in the Vilnius and Suvalkai area, in the Vilnius ghetto, Paneriai mass killing site. Memoirs of the Jewish survivors (members of the corpses burning brigade in Paneriai) and IX Fort in Kaunas. Protocols, acts, and other documentation compiled by the Extraordinary Soviet Commission (1944). First list of Jews living in Lithuania (compiled on September 1944). Total 1195 persons (data includes names, names of both parents, birth date). Second list of Jewish residents in Lithuania (27 September 1944). Total 468 persons (name, surname, place of birth).

1. Rinkinių apskaitos ir apsaugos skyrius

• Kazimierz Sakowicz, Ponary Diary

• Vilniaus Gaono žydų istorijos muziejus
• VŽM 4524
• Multiple
• 1941-1943
• paper, ink, pencil, 18 pages
• Updated 3 years ago

Killings at Paneriai documented day by day. Fragments of diary handwritten by pencil on 15 pages of various sizes. 3 calendar pages from 1941 with days marked.

• Inventory and Conservation of Holdings Department

• Vilniaus Gaono žydų istorijos muziejus
• VŽM
• English
• Judaica holdings are classified as primary (VŽM) and academic support (VŽMP) collections under the Museum’s statute with consideration of the extant value of the item as a museum piece. Currently around 30,000 items are being conserved. Primary collection consists of: 1. Household decorative items, ritual equipment, tangible exhibition pieces of historical significance. 2. Writings and documents. 3. Photography. 4. Visual and decorative art. 5. Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz‘s memorial collection. 6. Archive of Josif Shapiro (collector of ex-libris).
• Updated 2 weeks ago

The collections include: 1. Household decorative items, ritual equipment, tangible exhibition pieces of historical significance. Materials include metal, wood, leather, ceramics, precious metals, textiles, bone and other materials. Among these items are around 100 unique artifacts from Paneriai mass killing sites, material from the ghetto period and from prisoners, people who perished and people who survived. There are also artifacts of the Great Synagogue and from Jewish cemeteries. 2. Writings and documents include books, press, manuscripts, posters, documents. There are 5000 items in tot...