1941 pogroms in Lithuania

Anti-Jewish massacres during the German invasion of Lithuania in 1941 During the German invasion of Lithuania in June 1941, a number of anti-Jewish pogroms took place. Unlike the 1941 pogroms in eastern Poland, which were committed by unaffiliated civilians, these pogroms were carried out by Lithuanian paramilitary forces.Mishkin Benjamin Politics, Violence, Memory: The New Social Science of the Holocaust 2023 Cornell University Press 978-1-5017-6676-3 124–136 en Mass Violence without Mass Politics: Political Culture and the Holocaust in Lithuania The most deadly of these was the Kaunas pogrom; over three days, 3,500 Jews were killed in the city.Kwiet Konrad Rehearsing for Murder: The Beginning of the Final Solution in Lithuania in June 1941 Holocaust and Genocide Studies 1998 12 1 3–26 10.1093/hgs/12.1.3Stasiulis Stanislovas The Holocaust in Lithuania: The Key Characteristics of Its History, and the Key Issues in Historiography and Cultural Memory East European Politics and Societies: And Cultures 2020 34 1 261–279 10.1177/0888325419844820 free References Pogroms Pogroms in Lithuania Category:Anti-Jewish pogroms in Europe Category:Holocaust massacres and pogroms in Lithuania Category:1941 mass murders