Ponary Diary, 19411943
A Bystander?s Account of a Mass Murder
by Kazimierz Sakowicz
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appears in Holocaust, History, and Nonfiction.
About sixty thousand Jews from Wilno (Vilnius, Jewish Vilna) and surrounding townships in presentday Lithuania were murdered by the Nazis and their Lithuanian collaborators in huge pits on the outskirts of Ponary. Over a period of several years, Kazimierz Sakowicz, a Polish journalist who lived in the village of Ponary, was an eyewitness to the mu...
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