FREE: **GIN** - 4 LITHUANIA NAZI HOLOCAUST 50 YEARS REMEMBRANCE FDC's ISSUED 1991

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4 FDC's FROM 1991 LITHUANIA - 50 YEARS REMEMBRANCE OF THE NAZI HOLOCAUST

On 22 June 1941, the Germans launched "Operation Barbarossa" against the Soviet Union. Vilnius was captured on 24 June.Two ghettos were set up in the old town centre for the large Jewish population – the smaller one of which was "liquidated" by October.
The larger ghetto lasted until 1943, though its population was regularly deported in roundups known as "Aktionen". A failed ghetto uprising on 1 September 1943 organized by the Fareinigte Partizaner Organizacje (the United Partisan Organization, the first Jewish partisan unit in German-occupied Europe), was followed by the final destruction of the ghetto. During the Holocaust, about 95% of the 265,000-strong Jewish population of Lithuania was murdered by the German units and Lithuanian Nazi collaborators, many of them in Paneriai, about 10 km (6.2 mi) west of the old town centre (see the Ponary massacre).

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