Ponar


Vilna Ghetto teenager's diary during the Holocaust to be focus in new online exhibit by YIVO

YIVO said the diary provides “intimate insights into daily life, cultural resistance, and moral choices faced by those in the ghetto."

 The main entrance to the Vilnius Ghetto in Lithuania during World War II.

Two Holocaust memorials smeared with antisemitic, pro-Russian slurs

"The Ponary massacre" took place between 1941 and 1944 near the railway station at Ponary (now Paneriai), About 100,000 Jews, Poles and Russians, were murdered.

A memorial marking the massacre site in Ponar