page_title: Paneriai
hierarchical_section_title: Paneriai
caption_attribution_description: English: Burning pit, Paneriai Lithuania. Mass execution site of 70,000 Jews, 20,000 Poles and approx. 10,000 Russians. Shown here is the burning pit where the German SD &amp; SS along with collaborating Lithuanian Sonderkommandos burned exhumed bodies from the Paneriai death pits in attempt to destroy the evidence of the mass executions.
context_page_description: Paneriai is a neighborhood of Vilnius, situated about 10 kilometres away from the city center. It is the largest elderate in the Vilnius city municipality. It is located on low forested hills, on the Vilnius-Warsaw road. Paneriai was the site of the Ponary massacre, a mass killing of as many as 100,000 people from Vilnius and nearby towns and villages during World War II.
context_section_description: Paneriai (literally Lithuanian: "a place near Neris"; adapted to Polish: Ponary, Yiddish: פאנאר‎/Ponar) is a neighborhood of Vilnius, situated about 10 kilometres away from the city center. It is the largest elderate in the Vilnius city municipality. It is located on low forested hills, on the Vilnius-Warsaw road. Paneriai was the site of the Ponary massacre, a mass killing of as many as 100,000 people from Vilnius and nearby towns and villages during World War II.
caption: Pit used to burn corpses that were exhumed to destroy evidence of mass executions.
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