1941 pogroms in Lithuania explained

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.^[1] The most deadly of these was the Kaunas pogrom; over three days, 3,500 Jews were killed in the city.^{[2] [3]}

Notes and References

1. Book: 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.
2. 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/12.1.3.
3. Stasiulis . 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 .