Comments on: Lithuania marks 81 years since Nazis liquidated Vilnius Ghetto https://www.jwire.com.au/lithuania-marks-81-years-since-nazis-liquidated-vilnius-ghetto/ Australia, NZ and worldwide Jewish news that matters Wed, 07 Jun 2023 15:28:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Roy Wittert https://www.jwire.com.au/lithuania-marks-81-years-since-nazis-liquidated-vilnius-ghetto/#comment-625903 Wed, 07 Jun 2023 15:28:30 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=141283#comment-625903 The world should be made aware that many Lithuanians actively participated in killing their Jewish population.

]]> By: phillips88 https://www.jwire.com.au/lithuania-marks-81-years-since-nazis-liquidated-vilnius-ghetto/#comment-622968 Tue, 04 Oct 2022 07:17:00 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=141283#comment-622968 I visited the last remaining shule in Vilnius a couple of years ago, a sad poor reminder of a once thriving Jewish population.

]]> By: Robert Krochmalik https://www.jwire.com.au/lithuania-marks-81-years-since-nazis-liquidated-vilnius-ghetto/#comment-622964 Tue, 04 Oct 2022 06:45:09 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=141283#comment-622964 If the ghetto was liquidated in September, 1943 it is in fact 79 years since that date not 81 years.

Many of the ghettos in Poland were liquidated in August, 1942 including the one in Otwock on 19/8/1942 and Minsk Mazowiecki on 20-21/8/1942 where I recently attended commemoration in both towns remembering the liquidation of the ghettos and the murder of my grandfather (together with approximately 3,000 other Jews from Otwock) by the Germans 80 years ago.

About 7,000 Jews were deported and exterminated in Treblinka, while 3,000 others, who offered passive resistance and hid themselves, were found, and most were killed on the spot. Another 700 Jews who succeeded in fleeing into the surrounding forests were killed by German armed groups searching the woods.

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