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1944-03-22 / Jewish Prisoners Escaped from Panevėžys: “were recaptured and could be given special treatment”

On March 22, 1944, State Police office in Tilsit sent a report to the Commander of the Security Police and SD in Kaunas. The report concerns a group of Jewish forced laborers in Ponevezh who had escaped from a work detail of District Commissioner in Ponevezh. According to the document, “approximately 50 Jews in Ponevezys fled from external labor, and that all but 15 Jews were recaptured and could be given special treatment”, i.e. they were killed.

Kamenets-Podolsky massacre 1941
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1941-08-27 / Radio Message on the Massacre at Kamenets-Podolsky: “Special Action Staff with Police Battalion 320 shot 4,200 Jews”

On 27 August 1941, a radio message from the Higher SS and Police Leader South recorded the on-set of one of the largest mass shootings of Jews during the early phase of the Holocaust in the occupied Soviet territories. Under “activities,” the notes that Police Battalion 320, together with a detachment of the staff company, was in Kamenets-Podolsky carrying out a “Sonderaktion,” or “special action.” Under “successes, the report states that the “Special Action Staff with Police Battalion 320 shot 4,200 Jews.”

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